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To: "Matt Churchyard" <matt.churchyard@userve.net>
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Subject: Re: Checking bhyve supported features (sysctls)
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On 16 Aug 2018, at 12:16, Matt Churchyard wrote:
> I'm looking for better ways to check for bhyve support / available =

> features without trying to scan through dmesg output.

There=E2=80=99s a few patches floating around for checking features [1,2]=
 - =

however none of these are yet committed.
For [2], there=E2=80=99s also an RFC mailing list thread [3].

CC=E2=80=99ing novel@, as he wrote those patches.

The hackish way libvirt checks for features right now is to parse error =

messages from invalid invocations of bhyve(8).

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D210111
[2] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15992
[3] =

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2018-June/0065=
36.html