FreeBSD 12.1 hypervisor management tools

[Roger Pau Monné]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:47:54AM +0200, Stefan Parvu wrote:
> >> 
> >> libvirtd, virt-manager: no go.
> >> 
> >> * I had to rebuild libvirtd with Xen support
> >> 
> >> * got occasional core dumps from libvirt
> > 
> > Can you report those? (ie: send the dumps here so they can be analyzed
> > and either fixed or forwarded to the appropriate upstream project)
> 
> 
> sure. I should put a list of defects. I need to repeat these. 
> 
> I was in hurry to check on the overall state of the project. But Im curious: has 
> anyone at least tried, meaning really to use virt-manager for Xen on FreeBSD ?

I don't use libvirt at all, so I never tried it myself. I know it
works on Linux and is tested as part of the Xen CI loop, see the
-libvirt jobs in any Xen CI loop output:

http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/146050/

So whatever is broken it's likely to be FreeBSD specific and will
require someone from the FreeBSD community to diagnose and propose
fixes.

The first step should be to report those errors, and figure out
whether someone has interest in getting libvirt working on FreeBSD/Xen
and maintaining it in a sane state. If there's no interest we should
drop the Xen option from the libvirt port to not give users false
expectations.

Thanks, Roger