From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 13 06:12:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFD36A7 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:12:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pd0-x22e.google.com (mail-pd0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 656C32993 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f174.google.com with SMTP id y13so819795pdi.33 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:12:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=hgvq0CnqtSeg1qBGdrPHyS0HQWw5p9VI0IcaQHQbuCY=; b=BalrDmfLlkXe98pLFVoI9HXbVyP7hPm/dmwXhyoHT/krJZQiB91YZ2doJCSxCP0c3E Tl7pUazUsi233/96sfHz/9QjJxLM6vnJU5j0cpPxaNOu82fVd1FJk1MR/6so61i6jzGX 830LvveukrqKr/Ff3jhpV9N8PwHgwzfUuvceYkjiguTgHl6UC0SAiM1HEmcfIoUMGUjp 1WmuyXc3PTrQc+jU4xIkk33Rns+0eucgEQYyZWRxAxrZH/s2B9ACR7/MoW30fjSXtO/L g42x5ww3RNtwraoURx56T5RNsNiz6UiUxbbGaazuekzpgMilA1JfQbh+40m9wm6uygx2 gnBA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.216.227 with SMTP id ot3mr11717224pbc.80.1379052769079; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.203.193 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:12:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:12:49 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: CFT: emulators/petitecloud From: Aryeh Friedman To: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:12:49 -0000 For reference the PR is ports/182056 On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Forgot to mention if you download emulators/petitecloud please let us know > so we can have a rough user count > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > >> emulators/petitecloud is a thin frontend to bhyve and, in future >> versions, additional Hyper-V's. We have just submitted a PR containing >> the port so it might take a while for it to be available in your local >> ports tree. In the meantime, you can get it from >> ftp://ftp.petitecloud.org/petitecloud/aryeh/0.1/port-0.1.tar.gz >> >> emulators/petitecloud is now pre-alpha in quality, so please keep >> the following limitations in mind: >> >> 1. No input validation is performed. >> 2. No resource limits are enforced. >> 3. No attempt is made to resolve conflicting data. (For example, >> using the same "disk" or block device for two instances is known to freeze >> up the host.) >> 4. emulators/petitecloud does not yet support multiple network or >> storage devices (although bhyve does support them) >> 5. Full instance control is not supported yet. Instances can be >> created, but cannot yet be stopped, re-started or deleted via >> emulators/petitecloud itself. (However, instances can be killed from the >> process table and deleted manually from the config file >> (/usr/local/etc/petitecloud/instances).) >> 6. In the included web GUI (by design all GUI commands have >> commmand line equivelents and vice versa) there is no CSS yet, so as to >> allow our web designer a freer hand. >> >> We plan to fix the above issues in future versions. In the >> meantime, what we want to know in the test is: >> >> 1. What areas need the most improvements and what specific >> suggestions you have for them >> 2. Attempt to use on as wide a range of hardware as possible >> (within the limits of what bhyve supports) >> >> >