bhyve: Detecting that a guest kernel has booted

[Jason Barbier]

None I know off the top of my head nor would that be really something easily done without some sort of agent. We could probably make some sort of inference based calls to the emulated registers but even then that wouldn't be that correct.

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Jason Barbier | E: jason at corrupted.io 

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019, at 10:05 AM, Mark Raynsford via freebsd-virtualization wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Leaving aside userland monitoring tools such as Prometheus[0], is there
> any way to detect on the host that a guest kernel running in bhyve has
> booted? I'm assuming "booted" in this sense to mean "PID 1 has probably
> started". I'm guessing that there probably isn't, but I thought I'd
> better ask anyway. "Not booted" would mean something like "Is sitting
> at the Grub prompt doing nothing".
> 
> [0] https://prometheus.io/
> 
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> Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com
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