Re: C bhyve administration tool

2015-11-06 Thread Shawn Debnath
True. My goal is that if this works out for everyone, that someday it might get pulled into the distribution. ZFS has it advantages, but you are correct. Not everyone in the world wants to use ZFS (for whatever the reason might be). Will make sure the core features stays file system

Re: C bhyve administration tool

2015-11-05 Thread Shawn Debnath
Great feedback and thank you. Looks like it might not hurt to continue the work, at least for now. My reasoning for a C based tool was to be able to use libvmmapi to get deeper integration with the bhyve framework. Let's see how things go. I will work on getting the basics functioning and

Re: C bhyve administration tool

2015-11-04 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Well, in all honesty, getting vm managers to kvm equivalents ( ie virt-manager ) should not be a goal. virt-manager and friends are terrible. Please envision something better! Where it is hosted and what language it is written in doesn't really matter. Just my 2 cents. Best regards Andreas On

Re: C bhyve administration tool

2015-11-04 Thread Trent Thompson
Going back to the original message in the thread, yes, I think the more the merrier. I created iohyve to solve a problem I had. I wanted to store my bhyve VM's in ZFS. Matt C. created vm-bhyve to solve the problem of storing VM's in a manager that didn't use ZFS. Matt and I have traded ideas back