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Date:      Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:03:37 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Shawn Debnath <shawn@debnath.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: C bhyve administration tool
Message-ID:  <CA%2BtpaK0GwXp3K%2BwFpVNkJsrJ=ML31mrUF79ct1syTJJ_RiRD5Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151103221930.GA50869@debnath.net>
References:  <20151103221930.GA50869@debnath.net>

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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Shawn Debnath <shawn@debnath.net> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Couple months ago I started writing a bhyve management tool in C for our
> startup, in preparation for migration to FreeBSD for our servers. The
> goal was to be able to create, drop, and auto-start/stop/restart VMs,
> individually or all at once, and provide a plugin infrastructure to
> expose some metrics / errors for reporting and aggregation. More
> importantly it would detect errors/failures, report them and attempt to
> restart the VM per assigned policy.
>
> The effort stalled due to some high priority work that crept in.
> However, I am planning on restarting soon and wanted to check if there
> was a need for something like this.  I ran across Michael Dexter's vmrc,
> and although its shell based, it does provide quite a bit of features
> that we were looking for.  There's also iohyve. And I heard Peter and
> Neel are working on something as well. If there is interest, this would
> be open sourced from the start. Or if there is an existing effort
> that addresses these problems, I would love to contribute to that project.
>
> Thoughts, comments, concerns, please share.
>

vm-bhyve is most mature to this point IME, just don't use the ports version.



-- 
Adam



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