Re: RFC: rc(8) script for bhyve(8) on FreeBSD

On 8/5/24 14:22, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> On 05/08/2024 18:50, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On 8/5/24 12:12, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> two years elapsed since I last deployed a FreeBSD machine that 
>>> utilizd bhyve(8), which already had bhyve_config(5) support back then.
>>>
>>
>> This may feel slightly off topic but I assure you that it is of great
>> benefit. Have a look at the brilliant creation of Steve Wills that I
>> know and love as "cirrina" :
>>
>>      https://gitlab.com/swills/cirrina/-/releases
>>
>> It is very much in active development and does a neat job of handling a
>> pile of stuff related to bhyve. Not the least of which is the creation
>> and configuration and management of a whole slew of VMs. It is actively
>> being tested and developed and I have been using it while testing PCI
>> device passthru of NVidia Quadro GPUs for the purpose of CUDA dev work.
>>
>> I also am motivated to write up a pile of documentation related to
>> cirrina given that it really does feel like a Swiss Army Knife which
>> can do damn near everything I ever wanted with bhyve.
> 
> I have seen cirrina some time ago. I was interested in GUI.
A GUI with bells and whistles like VMware Workstation is a long way off.
Feel free to drop a few million US dollars and I am sure a prototype
would be available in six months. It may even work.

Sorry but cirrina(d) is just great from the command line for now.

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Dennis Clarke
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