On 12/28/25 09:51, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: > This series includes a minimal number of changes to allow running > bhyve arm64 guests. > > Bhyve on amd64 and arm64 has slightly different sets of supported > devices, and a different syntax for some devices. Specifically, > bootrom and consoles are configured without the LPC controller, > used for amd64, but using the "-o" argument, i.e. "-o bootrom=<bootrom>" > and "-o console=<console>". > > This series moves quite a significant amount of test data files. > I tried to isolate that into separate commit with a minimal > set of related changes. > > While this series enables running arm64, there are more items to work > on: > > - On arm64, bhyve normally uses > /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-bhyve-arm64/u-boot.bin > bootrom. Autofill code should be updated to automatically use > that if no path was specified. > - Bhyve capabilities probing uses `bhyve -s 0,<device>` and parsing > error message to see if a device is supported. Using `bhyve -s help` > that lists supported devices should be more accurate and robust. > - UTC clock is not supported on bhyve/arm64. I wasn't able to figure > out yet how to make libvirt not using it by default, so currently > arm64 guests require <clock offset='localtime'/> > > I plan to address these issues in a separate series.
WFM, BUT even this work you posted deserves a NEWS.rst entry ;-) Feel free to add it as a 10th patch. > > Roman Bogorodskiy (9): > bhyve: capabilities: fix for arm64 > bhyve: tests: support arch-dependent tests > bhyve: domain: require ISA controller on x86_64 only > bhyve: command: handle arm64 console > bhyve: command: make -H and -P args amd64-only > bhyve: command: handle arm64 bootloader > bhyve: tests: prepare for arm64 xml2xml tests > bhyve: tests: add xml2xml arm64 tests > bhyve: report domain capabilities for arm64 > 301 files changed, 313 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <[email protected]> Michal
