====== bhyve validation tool ======

The goal of **BVT** is to provide a semi-automated framework for finding regressions in bhyve

It is a way to validate MFCd changes from HEAD to 10-stable.

==== Basics ====

  - Boot a series of pre-created virtual machine images
  - Each of these images is configured to do a number of tasks (start a web server that serves a file, run some basic tests of memory, cpu, and disk)
  - After a reasonable wait period, bvt checks to see if these tasks were completed
  - Calculate the results, all tests should pass (maybe we need a test that always fails to validate the results?)

==== Goals ====

  - Find breakages, 'changeset rXXXXXX breaks booting %%CentOS%% 6.5 under bhyve', 'changeset rXXXXXX segfaults when you try to write to the disk'
  - Speed up the process of validating changes to HEAD so they can be merged to 10-STABLE sooner

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