From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 12 17:31:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D50E2F34 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 937631A10 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57]) by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87FF212269; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:31:53 +1000 (EST) Received: from Peter-Grehans-MacBook-Pro-2.local ([64.245.0.210]) by dommail.onthenet.com.au (MOS 4.2.4-GA) with ESMTP id BRT88396 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:31:52 +1000 Message-ID: <52FBB006.7060300@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:31:50 -0800 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Nielsen Subject: Re: best branch for bhyve on AMD? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:31:55 -0000 Hi John, > Am I right in thinking that bhyve support for AMD processors is not > yet in -STABLE? Yes, that's correct. > If so, is there working code for bhyve under AMD anywhere? Where? > -HEAD, projects/bhyve_svm or somewhere else? projects/bhyve_svm > Is it considered experimental, stable, or something in between? I'd home somewhere on the stable side of experimental. I've had good success with it on a Phenom II, but looks like at least 1 user has had issues. > Should it work with the above processor? I think your model may be predate the h/w nested paging support that bhyve relies on (EPT, or RVI in early AMD terminology). The list of AMD CPUs with RVI is at: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/GPU120AMDRVICPUsHyperVWin8.aspx ... and the Athlon 64 X2 isn't on that list :( later, Peter.