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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:50:46 -0700
From:      Benjamin Perrault <ben.perrault@gmail.com>
To:        Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Neel Natu <neel@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD
Message-ID:  <0957BA6A-34EA-48CF-9484-60F7ACE183E9@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201410160333.s9G3XIvO048940@mx2.shrew.net>
References:  <201410160333.s9G3XIvO048940@mx2.shrew.net>

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I=E2=80=99ve applied Neel=E2=80=99s patch against r273182 and am =
currently abusively testing it on a mix of HP DL385s w/ dual Opteron =
6378SE, & Single socket AMD G34s ( some with Opteron 6200s, some with =
6300s ), about 15 boxes in total - so far so good.=20

Seriously awesome work Gentlemen.

cheers,
-bp

> On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net> wrote:
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> Fantastic news! Greatly appreciated.
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> -Matthew
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> On Oct 15, 2014 10:00 PM, Anish Gupta <akgupt3@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,=20
>>=20
>> The projects/bhyve_svm branch is ready to be merged to HEAD.=20
>>=20
>> This branch contains patches to bhyve to enable it to work on AMD=20
>> processors with SVM/AMD-V hardware extensions[1]. Pretty much any AMD=20=

>> processor since 2010 will have the features required by bhyve.=20
>>=20
>> bhyve on AMD supports (almost) all the features available with Intel=20=

>> [2]. All guest OSes supported on Intel are supported on AMD. All the=20=

>> bhyve-related utilities function similarly on both Intel and AMD=20
>> platforms [3].=20
>>=20
>> The patch against HEAD revision 273066 is available for review and =
testing:=20
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve_svm.diff [Neel=E2=80=99s =
web directory]=20
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>> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization=20
>> [2]: bhyve doesn't support PCI passthru on AMD at this time=20
>> [3]: bhyvectl has grown some processor-specific options=20
>>=20
>> Thanks and regards,=20
>> Peter, Neel & Anish[akgupt3@gmail.com]=20
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