Re: [libvirt] Introducing Fabian Freyer (GSoC 2016 student)

Hi, I'd like to introduce Fabian Freyer (CCed), he's taking part in Google Support of Code this year within FreeBSD organization and his project is called "Improving libvirt support for bhyve".

Below I'm sharing a tentative plan we currently have. Or, to be more specific, it's a list of ideas for the bhyve driver with things were implementation is clear going first, followed by items were some additional research and working on approach needed. There's no goal to implement everything from this list though. This list was assembled by Fabian with some minor edits from me. Suggestions and ideas are very welcome. --- The primary aim of this project is to implement missing calls and functionality in the libvirt bhyve driver. According to the libvirt API Support Matrix [1], there are a large number of calls not yet implemented. While some missing API calls are not applicable to bhyve, a number of them are, among them the following calls: General calls: - virConnectDomainXMLFromNative This would mostly be an argument parser for a bhyve(8) and bhyvectl(8) command line. - virConnectGetCPUModelNames This needs a research: bhyve is not very flexible in configuration of what CPU model is exposed to the guest, need to figure out if that’s worth implementing now. Connection calls: Most of these include some form of authentication handling and are therefore not applicable. However, the following do apply to bhyve and are easy to implement: - virConnectGetType Trivially return “BHYVE” - virConnectIsAlive Trivially return 1, since “A connection will be classed as alive if it is [...] local” and /dev/vmm is local. - virConnectIsEncrypted Trivially return 0, since bhyve does not support encrypted interfaces. General Domain calls: - virDomainGetMaxMemory Since bhyve does not support memory ballooning, just return the amount of memory allocated here - virDomainGetMaxVcpus, virDomainGetVcpus Would use the approach described in this mailing list thread: “Until the vCPU state is exposed by bhyvectl, or we provide a sysctl, you can use heuristics: the number of vCPU threads for the bhyve process, or scan all vCPUs and only count those that have a non-zero RIP.” [2] - virDomainGetCPUStats - virDomainGetTime - virDomainInjectNMI Call bhyvectl --inject-nmi - virDomainReset Reset a bhyve VM with ‘bhyvectl --force-reset’ and then clean things up using bhyvectl --destroy; update bhyve monitor code to handle exit code 0 from bhyve(8) that’s corresponding to reset (0 - reset / reboot, 1 - shutdown, 2 - halt) to trigger re-starting of the VM.

- virDomainReboot