RE: C bhyve administration tool

2015-11-04 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> 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

RE: C bhyve administration tool

2015-11-04 Thread Larry Rosenman
On 2015-11-04 03:47, Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization 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, indiv

RE: C bhyve administration tool

2015-11-04 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
>> 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 infrastr

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 a

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 Paul Vixie
On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 09:56:53 PM Andreas Nilsson wrote: > 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