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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