On 7/19/25 13:30, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
The bhyveload(8) command does not have a native non-interactive mode. It means that in case of errors, e.g. invalid boot media, it just drops into a loader prompt and waits for user input. This behaviour makes it tricky for users to understand what's going on.
To address that, run it with the timeout(1) tool which sends SIGTERM after a certain timeout, and then optionally sends SIGKILL if the command keeps hanging.
These timeout values could be configured in the bhyve.conf. Setting timeout to 0 mean that bhyveload(8) will be executed directly, without timeout(1).
Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com> --- src/bhyve/bhyve.conf | 9 +++++++ src/bhyve/bhyve_command.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++--- src/bhyve/bhyve_conf.c | 12 +++++++++ src/bhyve/bhyve_utils.h | 3 +++ src/bhyve/libvirtd_bhyve.aug | 4 ++- src/bhyve/test_libvirtd_bhyve.aug.in | 2 ++ .../bhyvexml2argv-bhyveload-timeout.args | 10 ++++++++ .../bhyvexml2argv-bhyveload-timeout.ldargs | 7 ++++++ .../bhyvexml2argv-bhyveload-timeout.xml | 23 +++++++++++++++++ tests/bhyvexml2argvtest.c | 6 +++++ 10 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-bhyveload-timeout.args create mode 100644 tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-bhyveload-timeout.ldargs create mode 100644 tests/bhyvexml2argvdata/bhyvexml2argv-bhyveload-timeout.xml
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> and please post a follow up patch for NEWS.rst, this deserves a release note. Michal