diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/bhyvemgr.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/bhyvemgr.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..27c3f2062d --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/bhyvemgr.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +=== 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 + +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 application is being developed for 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 new features that were added: + +- Support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM through software via swtpm) on CURRENT +- Bootvars support +- Bios, system, board and chassis information can be modified +- Systray icon support on almost all desktop environment (tested on Plasma, Gnome, Xfce, LXQt and IceWM) + +Bhyvemgr supports aarch64 only on 15-CURRENT and amd64 from FreeBSD 13.x to 15-CURRENT. +Also bhyvemgr can be + +* compiled and installed from link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/bhyvemgr[ports], +* installed as binaries through `pkg` with gtk2, qt5 or qt6 interface support. + +Anyone interested in helping or supporting the project are welcome. + +Current version: 1.3.1 + +TODO + +* Testing on real aarch64 hardware (aarch64 device donation for testing is welcome) +* Add uart device support