FreeBSD Bhyve Control Panel (BVCP)

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The story behind it ..​

This is a personal project from the author of nPulse.net, Viktor Hlavaji (DaVieS).
nPulse.net is always willing to share knowledge and resources with others, and I have 10+ experience of making industry-class / enterprise-class software programs.

Since 2017 I’ve been focusing my efforts on reducing CO emissions footprint on many different levels on industrial scale IT. My company is trying to be exclusively green. What I need now is mostly FreeBSD and virtualisation technology. To this point it has not been possible for these to come together, until now.

 

[rootbert]

I hope the author will release the source code one day so I can try his software

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… BVCP …

When I browsed the developer's screenshots of the product, I couldn't see an interface to snapshots.

Am I missing something?

 

[tennea9]

There isn't one at the moment (as far as I know), but it is entirely possible to cheat a little ;-)... All you need to do is create a ZFS dataset with the name of the VM, mount it at the root (/), then in the Storage Management of the BVCP web console, create new storage by selecting our created dataset... This will allow the creation of the VM's storage support(s) inside it. Thus, thanks to ZFS snapshots, we will be able to rollback if needed.
But well.. there might be a simpler way than my method! :-D

BVCP is becoming an increasingly credible alternative to VirtualBox.
It is very easy to use.

However, it still lacks the ability to take snapshots in a "simple" way on the web console

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… BVCP … lacks the ability to take snapshots in a "simple" way on the web console

Thanks.

I'll stick with VirtualBox. Its simplicity is essential, when I need to focus on things.

 

[victort]

With the foreseeable death of TrueNAS CORE, I might switch to XigmaNAS and start using virtualbox myself.