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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:12:49 -0400
From:      Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CFT: emulators/petitecloud
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For reference the PR is ports/182056


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>wrote:

> Forgot to mention if you download emulators/petitecloud please let us know
> so we can have a rough user count
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> emulators/petitecloud is a thin frontend to bhyve and, in future
>> versions, additional Hyper-V's.   We have just submitted a PR containing
>> the port so it might take a while for it to be available in your local
>> ports tree.  In the meantime, you can get it from
>> ftp://ftp.petitecloud.org/petitecloud/aryeh/0.1/port-0.1.tar.gz
>>
>>         emulators/petitecloud is now pre-alpha in quality, so please keep
>> the following limitations in mind:
>>
>>         1. No input validation is performed.
>>         2. No resource limits are enforced.
>>         3. No attempt is made to resolve conflicting data.  (For example,
>> using the same "disk" or block device for two instances is known to freeze
>> up the host.)
>>         4. emulators/petitecloud does not yet support multiple network or
>> storage devices (although bhyve does support them)
>>         5. Full instance control is not supported yet.  Instances can be
>> created, but cannot yet be stopped, re-started or deleted via
>> emulators/petitecloud  itself.  (However, instances can be killed from the
>> process table and deleted manually from the config file
>> (/usr/local/etc/petitecloud/instances).)
>>         6. In the included web GUI (by design all GUI commands have
>> commmand line equivelents and vice versa) there is no CSS yet, so as to
>> allow our web designer a freer hand.
>>
>>         We plan to fix the above issues in future versions.  In the
>> meantime, what we want to know in the test is:
>>
>>         1. What areas need the most improvements and what specific
>> suggestions you have for them
>>         2. Attempt to use on as wide a range of hardware as possible
>> (within the limits of what bhyve supports)
>>
>>
>



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