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From: Mark Raynsford <list+org.freebsd.virtualization@io7m.com>
To: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>
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Subject: Re: bhyve: Detecting that a guest kernel has booted
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On 2019-03-11T13:08:53 -0400
Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
>
> If your guest OS supports it, you could probably write two scripts that
> uses virtio_console(4), one for the guest to tell the host "HELLO" and
> one for the host to say "NICE TO SEE YOU!" once the guest's "HELLO" is
> received.
>=20

They're a mix of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Debian guests. So I'm guessing
one out of three of those supports it...

I suppose my other option would be to add (another) NFS mount in each
guest, and have them touch a file early in the init script (and
possibly touch a different file early in the shutdown script).

--=20
Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com


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