On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:09:07AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > 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. > > I have no love for them either, but until we get our UEFI updated > it is a rather sad state of affairs. If we could a) get on a modern > version of ed2k, and b) bet the CSM fixed so that we could actually > boot bios mode stuff with it and c) maybe make a port of seabios > that could be used then we would be kicking some seriuos stuff!
If I'm able to run an internship this year like I did last year, I might have my interns update our UEFI firmware to the latest release and/or make a BSDL seabios port. My employer was recently acquired, so I'm likely not going to run an internship this year. 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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