On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:58:55AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > On 2019-03-11T13:08:53 -0400 > > Shawn Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > If your guest OS supports it, you could probably write two scripts that > > > uses virtio_console(4), one for the guest to tell the host "HELLO" and > > > one for the host to say "NICE TO SEE YOU!" once the guest's "HELLO" is > > > received. > > > > > > > They're a mix of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Debian guests. So I'm guessing > > one out of three of those supports it... > > > > I suppose my other option would be to add (another) NFS mount in each > > guest, and have them touch a file early in the init script (and > > possibly touch a different file early in the shutdown script). > > Well ICMP is in the kernel, and should be working as soon as the > interface is up, long before you could do anything with NFS, > so rather than the complexity above a simple ping would suffice.
Just a note: Windows systems disable inbound ICMP by default, but inbound ICMP support can be enabled post-installation. > There is also the phase of vmm(8) startup that when you are > running bhyveload vs bhyve and iirc grubload vs bhyve, that > can be detected. vmbhyve does so and says you are in state > looader when you do a vm list. I would suggest using bhyve with UEFI. I wish a death upon bhyveload and grub2-bhyve. Thanks, -- Shawn Webb Cofounder and Security Engineer HardenedBSD Tor-ified Signal: +1 443-546-8752 Tor+XMPP+OTR: [email protected] GPG Key ID: 0x6A84658F52456EEE GPG Key Fingerprint: 2ABA B6BD EF6A F486 BE89 3D9E 6A84 658F 5245 6EEE
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