bhyve / libvmmapi usage

[Roman Bogorodskiy]

Hi,

A couple of questions on the libvmmapi lib:

- Is that a "public" library intended for a wide audience or sort of an
  internal lib to be used by bhyve(8) and friends? 
- Somewhat continuation of the first question: any expectations on
  libvmmapi API/ABI stability?

Thanks,

Roman Bogorodskiy


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Re: bhyve / libvmmapi usage

[Tycho Nightingale via freebsd-virtualization]

Hi,

libvmmapi exists to support bhyveload and bhyve.  It's as you say an internal 
library.  While there is obviously nothing to preclude it’s use by others, I 
wouldn’t consider it’s interfaces “public” nor “stable”.  Furthermore, though 
there has been some consideration taken not to recycle the kernel interface 
ioctls, I’d also classify those interfaces as “private” and “unstable”.

Tycho

On Jun 24, 2016, at 9:09 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A couple of questions on the libvmmapi lib:
> 
> - Is that a "public" library intended for a wide audience or sort of an
>  internal lib to be used by bhyve(8) and friends? 
> - Somewhat continuation of the first question: any expectations on
>  libvmmapi API/ABI stability?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roman Bogorodskiy

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