Stop relying on ad hoc rootfs handling by adding image promotion, managed work-seed fingerprint metadata, and lazy self-healing for older managed images after the first create.
Rebuild guest images with baked SSH access, a guest NIC bootstrap, and default opencode services, and add the staged Void kernel/initramfs/modules workflow so void-exp uses a matching Void boot stack.
Replace the opaque blocking vm.create RPC with a begin/status flow that prints live stages in the CLI while still waiting for vsock health and opencode on guest port 4096.
Validate with GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./... and live void-exp create/delete smoke runs.
Expose the static vm create CPU, memory, system overlay, and work disk defaults at the Cobra flag declaration layer so banger vm create --help shows the values users get by default.
Keep the daemon as the fallback source of truth by only sending those fields in VMCreateParams when the user actually changes the flags. This preserves existing RPC behavior for omitted values while improving the CLI UX.
Add CLI coverage for displayed defaults and for unchanged versus changed flag propagation. Verified with GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./... and go run ./cmd/banger vm create --help.
Hard cut the terminal UI so the supported management surface is the daemon-backed CLI only.
Drop the tui subcommand, delete the Bubble Tea implementation and its tests, and keep a regression check that the legacy command is rejected.
Prune the Charmbracelet dependencies with go mod tidy and remove the stale README and AGENTS references.
Validated with go test ./... and GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./internal/cli.
Make banger vm ports single-target and collapse the old VM/WEB table shape into a simpler PROTO ENDPOINT PROCESS COMMAND view. Web listeners now surface directly as http or https, with clickable endpoints in the main endpoint column instead of a separate URL field.
Classify TCP listeners with HTTPS-first probing so TLS services are not mislabeled as plain HTTP just because they answer bad cleartext requests with an HTTP error, then dedupe rows by rendered PROTO+ENDPOINT so dual-stack binds like 0.0.0.0 and :: only show once.
Update the CLI/daemon regressions and README to match the new contract. Verified with GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./..., make build, git diff --check, and ./banger vm ports --help.
Let the host ask the guest vsock agent to run ss so open ports can be surfaced without SSHing in manually.
Add a narrow /ports agent endpoint, a daemon vm.ports RPC that enriches listeners with <hostname>.vm endpoints and best-effort HTTP links, and a concurrent 'banger vm ports' CLI table for one or more VMs.
Update the guest package contract to include ss for rebuilt Debian images, allow the guest agent package in the shell-out policy, and cover the new parsing/RPC/CLI flow in tests.
Verified with GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./... outside the sandbox, make build, bash -n customize.sh make-rootfs-void.sh verify.sh, and ./banger vm ports --help.
Make iterating on a Firecracker-friendly Void guest practical without replacing the Debian default image path.
Add local Void rootfs build/register/verify plumbing, a language-agnostic dev package baseline, and guest SSH/work-disk hardening so new images use the runtime bundle key, keep a normal root bash environment, and repair stale nested /root layouts on restart.
Replace the guest PING/PONG responder with an HTTP /healthz agent over vsock, rename the runtime bundle and config surface from ping helper to agent while still accepting the legacy keys, and route the post-SSH reminder through the new vm.health path.
Validated with GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./..., make build, bash -n customize.sh make-rootfs-void.sh, and git diff --check.
Beat VM create wall time without changing VM semantics.
Generate a work-seed ext4 sidecar during image builds and rootfs rebuilds, then clone and resize that seed for each new VM instead of rebuilding /root from scratch. Plumb the new seed artifact through config, runtime metadata, store state, runtime-bundle defaults, doctor checks, and default-image reconciliation so older images still fall back cleanly.
Add a daemon TAP pool to keep idle bridge-attached devices warm, expose stage timing in lifecycle logs, add a create/SSH benchmark script plus Make target, and teach verify.sh that tap-pool-* devices are reusable capacity rather than cleanup leaks.
Validated with go test ./..., make build, ./verify.sh, and make bench-create ARGS="--runs 2".
Multi-VM delete exposed two separate regressions: NAT teardown was still running after stopped VMs had already dropped their tap metadata, and the store was relying on one-off SQLite pragmas instead of configuring every pooled connection.
Skip NAT cleanup when the runtime no longer has the network handles needed to identify rules, and move the SQLite profile into the DSN so WAL, busy timeouts, foreign keys, and the other connection-scoped settings apply consistently across the pool. Keep the write mutex in place for concurrent mutations, and update the daemon/store tests to use valid image fixtures now that foreign key enforcement is real.
Validated with go test ./... and make build.
Remind users when a VM is still running after hanger vm ssh exits instead of silently dropping them back to the host shell.\n\nAttach a Firecracker vsock device to each VM, persist the host vsock path/CID,\nadd a new guest-side banger-vsock-pingd responder to the runtime bundle and both\nimage-build paths, and expose a vm.ping RPC that the CLI and TUI call after SSH\nreturns. Doctor and start/build preflight now validate the helper plus\n/dev/vhost-vsock so the feature fails early and clearly.\n\nValidated with go mod tidy, bash -n customize.sh, git diff --check, make build,\nand GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./... outside the sandbox because the\ndaemon tests need real Unix/UDP sockets. Rebuild the image/rootfs used for new\nVMs so the guest ping service is present.
Make host-integrated VM features fit a standard Go extension path instead of adding more one-off branches through vm.go. This is the enabling refactor for future work like shared mounts, not the /work feature itself.
Add a daemon capability pipeline plus a structured guest-config builder, then move the existing /root work-disk mount, built-in DNS, and NAT wiring onto those hooks. Generalize Firecracker drive config at the same time so later storage features can extend machine setup without another hardcoded path.
Add banger doctor on top of the shared readiness checks, update the docs to describe the new architecture, and cover the new seams with guest-config, capability, report, CLI, and full go test verification. Also verify make build and a real ./banger doctor run on the host.
The TUI should show VM capacity pressure at a glance instead of making users read raw numbers or drill into per-VM details.
Add a compact colored status row under the header that renders CPU, RAM, and disk usage as progress bars. CPU and RAM reflect reserved resources for running VMs, while disk reflects actual allocated overlay and work-disk bytes across all VMs against the filesystem backing banger state.
Add host resource and filesystem helpers in the system package and cover the new aggregation and rendering behavior with TUI and system tests. Verified with GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./... and GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache make build.
New VMs should come up with tmux session persistence ready instead of requiring per-VM plugin setup, and rebuilt images should stop carrying stale Docker installer scraps.
Configure both image build paths to install TPM, tmux-resurrect, and tmux-continuum for root, manage a marked /root/.tmux.conf block with autosave enabled and restore left manual, and remove legacy get-docker helper files during provisioning.
Update the README and repo guidance to document the rebuilt-image behavior. Verified with bash -n customize.sh, GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./internal/daemon -run TestBuildProvisionScriptInstallsDefaultTools, and GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache make build.
The TUI felt hung because banger tui blocked on ensureDaemon before Bubble Tea started, then treated the initial vm and image fetch as one combined loading gate.
Start the program first, move daemon bootstrap into staged TUI commands, render the full layout with inline loading placeholders, and split vm list and image list startup so VMs can appear before images finish loading. Also record per-stage timings so the slow step is visible in the status line instead of hidden behind a generic loading state.
Verified with go test ./internal/cli, go test ./..., and make build.
Extend the default image provisioning path so opencode is installed through mise as part of both the Go-native image builder and the shell-based rootfs customization flow. That keeps new images consistent regardless of which build path produced them.
The change reuses the existing mise activation setup instead of adding a second tool bootstrap path, and adds a provisioning-script assertion so the generated guest setup includes the opencode install step.
Verified with bash -n customize.sh and go test ./....
Teach the lifecycle and set commands to accept multiple VM refs, resolve them from one vm list snapshot, dedupe repeated refs, and fan out the existing single-target RPCs concurrently. Valid targets still run when other refs are ambiguous or missing, and batch output stays in first-seen order.
Refactor the daemon off the single global VM mutation lock by adding per-VM locks for start/stop/restart/delete/kill/set, touch, reconcile, stale-stop, and stats updates. That keeps same-VM operations serialized while allowing different VMs to progress in parallel, including newly created VMs once their ID exists.
Verified with go test ./... and make build.
Some guests ignore CtrlAltDel long enough that vm stop sat in wait_for_exit until the client disconnected, leaving the daemon to report context canceled instead of actually stopping the VM.
Keep the graceful shutdown attempt, but treat a grace-window timeout as a fallback case: log the timeout stage and continue into the existing forced cleanup path instead of returning immediately. Add a fake Firecracker API/process regression that exercises the timeout-to-cleanup transition.
Validate with go test ./..., make build, and a live ./banger vm stop ea run that now completes instead of hanging.
New VMs should have mise available without a per-VM bootstrap step, and the activation needs to work in the default root bash workflow.
Install a pinned mise binary during both the Go-native image build path and the customize.sh rootfs rebuild path, then enable bash activation through /etc/profile.d for login shells and /etc/bash.bashrc for interactive shells.
Add a regression around the generated provisioning script and validate with bash -n customize.sh, go test ./..., and make build. Rebuilding the default rootfs is still required before future default-image VMs pick up the change.
Stop and delete could fail with device-mapper busy errors when the persisted Firecracker PID was stale or the kernel needed longer to release the root snapshot.
Rediscover a live Firecracker process by API socket during cleanup, kill and wait on that PID instead of trusting only the stored runtime PID, and extend dm snapshot removal retries for transient busy handles.
Add daemon regressions for stale-runtime reconcile, rediscovered process cleanup, and repeated busy dm removal. Validate with go test ./..., make build, and a live ./banger vm stop debug-ssh run that now exits cleanly.
The shell-out reduction pass introduced two linked startup regressions in the hot path for vm create.
Make flattenNestedWorkHome repair the temporary nested /root tree without trying to read a root-owned 0700 directory as the calling user: chmod the scratch directory under sudo, then copy each child entry individually before removing it. Add a regression test for that overlap/permission case.
Restore the Firecracker launch wrapper that sets umask 000 before exec. Firecracker was creating the API socket, but the SDK could not use it during machine.Start after the direct sudo launch, so vm create timed out waiting on a socket that already existed.
Validated with go test ./... and make build.
Reduce the control plane's dependency on helper scripts while keeping the hard Linux integration points in the approved shell-out layer.
Replace the bash-driven image build path with a native Go builder that clones and optionally resizes the rootfs, boots a temporary Firecracker VM, provisions the guest over SSH, installs packages and modules, and preserves the package-manifest sidecar.
Also replace a few small convenience shell-outs with Go helpers: read process stats from /proc, use os.Truncate for ext4 image growth, add file-clone and normalized-line helpers, drop the sh -c work-disk flattening path, and launch Firecracker via a direct sudo command.
Add tests for the new SSH/archive and system helpers, plus a policy test that keeps os/exec imports confined to cli/firecracker/system. Update the docs to describe customize.sh as a manual helper rather than the daemon's image-build backend.
Validated with go mod tidy, go test ./..., and make build.
Serve daemon-managed .vm names directly from bangerd on 127.0.0.1:42069 instead of shelling out to mapdns. This keeps DNS state tied to VM lifecycle and lets the daemon rebuild records from running VMs after startup or reconcile.
Add a small in-process authoritative DNS server, register and remove records from the VM start/stop/delete paths, and show the listener in daemon status. Remove the mapdns config and preflight surface, stop helper-flow DNS publishing in customize.sh and interactive.sh, drop dns.sh from the runtime bundle, and update docs/tests for the new local-resolver integration model.
Validated with GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./..., GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache make build, and bash -n customize.sh interactive.sh.
Remove the last shell-owned NAT surface by extracting the iptables logic into a shared Go package and using it from both bangerd and a hidden helper bridge in the CLI.
Route customize.sh and interactive.sh through banger internal nat up/down so the remaining shell helpers reuse the same rule logic, resolve the local banger binary explicitly, and tear NAT back down during cleanup.
Drop nat.sh from the runtime bundle and docs now that NAT is Go-managed everywhere, and keep coverage aligned with the new shared package and helper command.
Validation: go test ./..., bash -n customize.sh interactive.sh verify.sh, make build, and a live ./verify.sh --nat run that installed host rules, reached outbound network access, and cleaned them up successfully.
Make the Firecracker and bangerd processes outlive short-lived CLI request contexts so vm create no longer kills the VMM or daemon as soon as the RPC returns.
Fix fresh-VM SSH by flattening the seeded /root work disk when the copied home tree lands under a nested root/ directory, and write a guest sshd override to keep root pubkey auth explicit while debugging.
Harden teardown and smoke diagnostics: verify.sh now reports early Firecracker exit and delete failures directly, while dm snapshot cleanup tolerates already-gone handles and retries busy mapper removal long enough for Firecracker to release the device.
Validation: go test ./..., make build, bash -n verify.sh, direct SSH against a fresh VM, and a live ./verify.sh run that now completes with [verify] ok.
Stop presenting make runtime-bundle as a turnkey fresh-checkout bootstrap\nwhen the checked-in manifest is intentionally empty. The manifest comments,\nruntimebundle error messages, Make help, README, and AGENTS docs now all\ndescribe the same local-first flow: stage an archive, use a separate local\nmanifest copy with url/sha256, then bootstrap ./runtime from that manifest.\n\nKeep the existing package/fetch commands intact, and add a small runtimebundle\nregression test so the local-manifest guidance does not drift again.\n\nValidated with make help and GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test\n./internal/runtimebundle.
Stop long-running daemon operations from running under context.Background by\nthreading a request-scoped context from handleConn into dispatch. The daemon\nnow cancels in-flight handlers when the client socket goes away, and the RPC\nclient closes its Unix connection when the caller context is canceled so that\ninterrupts actually reach the daemon boundary.\n\nAdd regression coverage for both sides of the path: canceled dispatch calls,\nclient disconnects during handleConn, watcher EOF cancellation, and context\ncancellation without an RPC deadline.\n\nValidated with GOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache go test ./... and\nGOCACHE=/tmp/banger-gocache make build.
Upgrades from the pre-bundle layout can leave the unmanaged default image pointing at repo-root artifacts that no longer exist, causing vm start preflight to fail forever. Treat the default image as reconcilable state instead of bailing out when a record exists.
Compute the desired default image from current runtime/config defaults, update an existing unmanaged default in place when its paths diverge, keep managed defaults untouched, and preserve the original ID so existing VMs keep referencing it. Added regression tests covering creation, no-op, reconciliation, managed-image skip, and missing-artifact behavior.
VM create and vm set accepted zero or negative CPU and memory values, which either got stored directly or silently fell back to defaults and only surfaced as failures later. This tightens validation so bad settings are rejected at the user boundary and again in the daemon before any VM record is persisted.
Change vm.create CPU and memory request fields to optional pointers so omitted values still mean defaults, while explicit non-positive values can be distinguished and rejected. Update Cobra create/set parsing, keep the TUI aligned with the new API shape, and add regression tests for CLI parsing, daemon-side validation, and the create-defaults path.
Validation: go test ./... and make build. Left my-rootfs.ext4 untracked.
The Go control plane already exposed banger vm kill and daemon-side kill handling, but the API package was missing the VMKillParams request type. That left the worktree depending on an unstaged type addition even though the rest of the feature was already wired.
Add the missing request struct so the CLI, RPC layer, and daemon share an explicit payload for signal-based VM termination. This commit is intentionally narrow because the rest of the kill-path work was already present.
VM start, image build, and network/setup failures were hard to diagnose because bangerd emitted almost no lifecycle logs and the Firecracker SDK logger was discarded. This adds a daemon-wide JSON logger with configurable log level so failures leave breadcrumbs instead of only side effects.
Log the main daemon and VM lifecycle stages, preserve raw Firecracker and image-build helper output in dedicated files, and include those log paths in daemon status and returned errors. Bridge SDK logrus output into the daemon logger at debug level so low-level Firecracker diagnostics are available without making normal info logs unreadable.
Validation: go test ./... and make build. Left unrelated worktree changes out of this commit, including internal/api/types.go, the deleted shell scripts, and my-rootfs.ext4.
Dangerous lifecycle, store, system, and RPC paths still had little or no automated confidence, and the live smoke harness failed opaquely when guest boot timing drifted. This adds targeted unit coverage for store allocation and decode failures, system helper failure ordering and cleanup, RPC error handling, and daemon lookup/reconcile/editing/stats/preflight edge cases.
It also makes verify.sh wait for daemon-observable VM readiness before SSH, reuse a bounded boot deadline for the SSH phase, and dump VM metadata, logs, tap state, socket state, and NAT rules on timeout so host-level failures are diagnosable instead of surfacing only connection refused.
Validation: go test ./..., go test ./... -cover, bash -n verify.sh. No live ./verify.sh boot was run in this environment.
Stop assuming one workstation layout for runtime artifacts, mapdns, and host tooling. The daemon and shell helpers now use portable mapdns configuration, and runtime bundles can carry bundle.json metadata for their default kernel, initrd, modules, rootfs, and helper paths.
Load bundle metadata through config with a legacy layout fallback, thread mapdns_bin/mapdns_data_file through the Go and shell paths, and add command-scoped preflight checks for VM start, NAT, image build, work-disk resize, and SSH so missing tools or artifacts fail with actionable errors.
Update the runtime-bundle manifest, docs, and tests to match the new model. Verified with go test ./..., make build, and bash -n customize.sh interactive.sh dns.sh make-rootfs.sh verify.sh.
Stop treating Firecracker, kernels, modules, and guest images as tracked source files. Source checkouts now resolve runtime assets from ./runtime, while installed binaries keep using ../lib/banger.
Add a small runtimebundle helper plus runtime-bundle.toml so make can bootstrap, package, and install a runtime bundle with checksum validation. Update the shell helpers and daemon path hints to fail clearly when the bundle is missing instead of assuming repo-root artifacts.
This removes the tracked runtime blobs from HEAD in favor of an ignored local runtime/ tree. Verified with go test ./..., make build, bash -n on the shell helpers, make -n install, and a temporary package/fetch smoke test. The manifest URL/SHA still need a published bundle before fresh clones can bootstrap, and history rewrite remains a separate rollout step.
Fix the misleading make install path where banger and bangerd still depended on a repo checkout for Firecracker, guest artifacts, image builds, and the SSH key.
Replace repo-root inference with an explicit runtime bundle model: resolve a runtime_dir from env/config/install layout, derive concrete artifact paths from it, and update the daemon, CLI, and image-build flow to use those paths. Keep repo_root only as an explicit compatibility alias instead of auto-detecting it.
Teach customize.sh to run from a read-only bundled runtime tree while writing transient state under XDG/BANGER_STATE_DIR, and make make install copy the runtime assets into PREFIX/lib/banger so installed binaries stay usable outside the repo.
Validate with go test ./..., make build, bash -n customize.sh, and make install DESTDIR=/tmp/banger-install PREFIX=/usr. An out-of-repo installed-binary smoke test was attempted, but this sandbox blocked bangerd from binding its Unix socket (setsockopt: operation not permitted).
Prevent partial VM startup failures from leaking loop devices and dm state on the host.
Move root snapshot setup into a rollback-safe helper that records loop and mapper handles incrementally, tears them down in reverse order on failure, and reuses the same dm/loop cleanup path during normal runtime teardown. Also switch the daemon runner field to a small command-runner interface so the snapshot path can be tested with injected failures.
Add failure-injection coverage for losetup, blockdev, dmsetup, partial teardown, and joined rollback errors. Validated with go test ./... and make build.
Fix the Go control plane NAT path now that runtime state lives in the daemon instead of the old repo-local vm.json files.
Add a daemon-native NAT helper that derives uplink, guest IP, and TAP rules directly from VMRecord, applies the existing iptables/sysctl behavior idempotently, and removes the broken nat.sh handoff from vm.go.
Cover uplink parsing and rule generation with unit tests. Validated with go test ./... and make build; a live verify.sh --nat run installed host rules but stopped on the same guest SSH-readiness issue seen in the plain smoke test on this host.
Replace the daemon's hand-rolled Firecracker process/socket client with the official firecracker-go-sdk while keeping the existing VM lifecycle and host-side disk and TAP setup intact.
Build machine configs through the SDK, launch Firecracker through a sudo process runner, resolve the real VM PID after startup, and use the SDK client for Ctrl-Alt-Del instead of raw REST calls. Drop the unused cached Firecracker state and add focused adapter tests for config and process-runner wiring.
Validated with go mod tidy, go test ./..., and make build. A live KVM/Firecracker smoke boot was not run in this environment.
Replace the shell-only user workflow with `banger` and `bangerd`: Cobra commands, XDG/SQLite-backed state, managed VM and image lifecycle, and a Bubble Tea TUI for browsing and operating VMs.\n\nKeep Firecracker orchestration behind the daemon so VM specs become persistent objects, and add repo entrypoints for building, installing, and documenting the new flow while still delegating rootfs customization to the existing shell tooling.\n\nHarden the control plane around real usage by reclaiming Firecracker API sockets for the user, restarting stale daemons after rebuilds, and returning the correct `vm.create` payload so the CLI and TUI creation flow work reliably.\n\nValidation: `go test ./...`, `make build`, and a host-side smoke test with `./banger vm create --name codex-smoke`.
