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Date:      Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:43:28 +0100
From:      Jaques <jacquescale@clovermail.net>
To:        Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc:        Jason Helfman <jgh@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [CFH] devel/libvirt, adding missing network piece
Message-ID:  <1328521408.1616.4.camel@user-laptop>
In-Reply-To: <1326322372.6240.2.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com>
References:  <20120111220039.GA65065@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> <1326322372.6240.2.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com>

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Are plans to port vnet jails + Hierarchical Resource Limits?

LXC is supported on libvirt

On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 14:52 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 14:00 -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
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> > Hello Everyone,
> > 
> > I am the maintainer of devel/libvirt, which is a toolkit to interact with
> > virtualization capabilities. Along with this, I maintain some other ports
> > that depend on libvirt that are of a graphical nature.
> > 
> > As it stands now, this port is incomplete in that the network layer of it is
> > disabled.  Having the network piece missing is a major deficiency of the port.
> > Libvirt is under very active development cycle, and there is at least one very
> > active developer that uses FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I had written this up sometime ago, now, and was hoping that someone here
> > would have the ability to update the code:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2011-04-2011-06.html#libvirt-networking-port
> > 
> > The advantages of getting a fully working libvirt port in FreeBSD would be
> > very helpful insofar as monitoring and utilities for the virtualization community.
> > If I had the coding experience, I would most definitely step up.
> > 
> > I am also going to be reaching out to the development community for libvirt
> > and virt-manager, to inquire if there are any plans on supporting BHyVe.
> > 
> > Many thanks, and hope someone out there can help! :)
> > 
> > - -jgh
> > 
> > - --
> > Jason Helfman         | FreeBSD Committer
> > jgh@FreeBSD.org       | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh
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> 
> Funny you should mention this.  I am working on the bhyve implementation
> in the cluster and was just discussing libvirt with some of my cohorts.
> 
> Let me review this status report and get back to you on it.  I'd like to
> use your work to get bhyve into a useable state for bsdcan if possible.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 



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