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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/bhyvemgr.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/bhyvemgr.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4aec57f06c --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/bhyvemgr.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +=== A bhyve management GUI written in Freepascal/Lazarus + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/alonsobsd/bhyvemgr[Bhyvemgr] URL: link:https://github.com/alonsobsd/bhyvemgr/[] + + +Contact: José Alonso Cárdenas Márquez <acm@FreeBSD.org> + +Bhyvemgr is a bhyve management GUI written in Freepascal/Lazarus on FreeBSD. +It needs a bunch of tools, mostly installed on base system, and some installed from ports/packages. +The main goal is to be a desktop application with focus on desktop users to easily and quickly setup and run virtual machines on FreeBSD hosts. + +During this quarter, there were many bugfixes and improvements to Bhyvemgr. + +These are some highlights that were added: + +- Add swtpm support to FreeBSD >=1403000. +- Add x86.verbosemsr setting on FreeBSD >=1500023. +- Add IPv6 support. + It enhances a better IPv6 support using package:dns/dnsmasq[]. + A host-record will be added to dnsmasq when Use_IPv6 is enabled. +- Add a bridge IPv6 calculator at Bhyve Manager Settings. + It helps us to calculate what IPv6 must be assigned to bridge interface. + Take a look at README for more information about that. +- Add support to create virtual machines from Cloud or VM images. + A new page will appear when "Create a virtual disk from image" option is selected. + It includes an image downloader (only support img.xz, raw.xz, qcow2.xz, qcow2, img, and raw files). +- Add Cloud init/Nuageinit configuration files support. +- Add user-data, network-config, and meta-data templates used from image minimal configuration. +- Add user-data, network-config, and meta-data samples files. +- Add support to define static ipv4 address when files configuration is selected from "Create Virtual Machine/Image" form. +- Add new option to select images path directory from "Settings". + This directory is used to storage extracted images files. + By default, it is located at [.filename]#~/.bhyvemgr#. +- Add new option to define qemu-img path file. +- Add i18n support with initial English, Simplified Chinese (thanks to link:https://github.com/ykla[ykla]) and Spanish translations. +- Enhanced logging support. +- Enhanced clipboard support. + +Bhyvemgr supports aarch64 from 15-PRERELEASE to 16-CURRENT and amd64 from FreeBSD 13.x to 16-CURRENT. +Also, package:sysutils/bhyvemgr[] can be compiled or installed from link:https://ports.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=bhyvemgr&stype=name&sektion=sysutils[ports] or pkg binaries with gtk2, qt5 or qt6 interface support. + +People interested in helping or supporting the project are welcome. + +Sponsor: https://paypal.me/alonsocbsd + +Current version: 1.12.0 |