BVCP: FreeBSD Bhyve Web UI

Published Date: 2021/06/28 by: DaVieS

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 softwares.

Since 2017 Im focusing to reduce CO emission footprint by many levels on industrial scale IT, so I trying to be green, what I need is mostly FreeBSD and virtualisation technology, however until now they are will not came together, until now.

I do need to comply with my customers and managing a ton of server would be difficult, thats why I used to KVM alternatives with pretty webUI, so with this project I assume all conditions are met to fully migrate into FreeBSD and saves a lot energy, that also means we are going to run on lower costs.

To be clear, in the past 10+ years of *NIX experience I can clearly claim that the FreeBSD much more faster than ANY, but more capricious.

Network Management:

BVCP Supports multiple network configurations, such bridged network, NAT configurations.

Storage Management:

Bhyve yet only supports .raw image disks, BVCP can create, attach, resize, detach, delete them as well.

VM Management:

BVCP has all features to provide full-featured virtual host administration over webUI.

System Management:

BVCP highly integrates into FreeBSD but remains independent, network interfaces (tap, bridge) start from number 300 to 900 to avoid conflicting any existing application, such as VPN.

Native Application:

No external libraries needed, just the operating system installed. Everything is included as a package, including the TLS/SSL capable webserver embedded.

Optimized:

Every core features are optimized for one task: "manage virtual machines". Nothing more. Therefore the whole software less than 100MB.

Enterprise Ready:

Made for production use, planned to manage multiple servers across multiple datacenters regardless the distance between them.

UEFI Support:

Basically only supports UEFI installation, with its advantages and limitations. This is important due portability.

START/STOP:

Start, Stop, Reset Virtual machines with multiple stop mechanism involved such as (ACPI Request).

Parallel:

The whole software is uses asynchronous functions, no delays, no locks -> Instant Action

VNC/Console:

noVNC Support integrated, due VNC protocol is unencrypted the software always encapsulates traffic as TLS channel.

For more details please visit: https://bhyve.npulse.net