Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:30:44 -0500 From: Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net> To: Anish Gupta <akgupt3@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Neel Natu <neel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD Message-ID: <201410160333.s9G3XIvO048940@mx2.shrew.net>
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Fantastic news! Greatly appreciated. -Matthew On Oct 15, 2014 10:00 PM, Anish Gupta <akgupt3@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The projects/bhyve_svm branch is ready to be merged to HEAD. > > This branch contains patches to bhyve to enable it to work on AMD > processors with SVM/AMD-V hardware extensions[1]. Pretty much any AMD > processor since 2010 will have the features required by bhyve. > > bhyve on AMD supports (almost) all the features available with Intel > [2]. All guest OSes supported on Intel are supported on AMD. All the > bhyve-related utilities function similarly on both Intel and AMD > platforms [3]. > > The patch against HEAD revision 273066 is available for review and testing: > https://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve_svm.diff [Neel’s web directory] > > [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization > [2]: bhyve doesn't support PCI passthru on AMD at this time > [3]: bhyvectl has grown some processor-specific options > > Thanks and regards, > Peter, Neel & Anish[akgupt3@gmail.com] > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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