From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 11:21:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87609106566B for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:21:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lichray@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27BE38FC17 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:21:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwc9 with SMTP id 9so7295522qwc.13 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:21:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=s6uSeky2+TszqWpQR4orzUIxEyHD4fbyoAcoGiSI2D8=; b=ui3PIToxMZhxTEmSZw7eAjrYnK0++5e1OSZ4llIqDbtWYJ2eYIm2UnIXMm4gOatNCa fqHvnt/Mts8ebu5O1rVKDpjaAP7v8IDKJthv2+Awe24KhXI7ShZZUGrqB1ri/y/8kuFu q0i6QIZZ+VP3+/61ooc3TWIHwoSvPy7lxzG34= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VIGOSrdwwWdLAKHK4j5Kdyco0Ep7msvhMhcuaZQEM8mCrewnIEnxTgaGrWP0px6dcf qYFce7qdvBsCIWTgGrEZE9JGjMxmFI95XWkG2IxS+XvApRuqmjo1aa6HI6B060tHh32R eBk+GzAjs398fzN1Gf+oDNqeyCBEHWa44QFgs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.71.69 with SMTP id g5mr7008859qaj.305.1300965705952; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.20.19 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:21:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:21:45 -0500 Message-ID: From: Zhihao Yuan To: Ivan Voras Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timecounter Project (GSoc2011) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:21:48 -0000 On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 24/03/2011 10:00, Jing Huang wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I am a student of Peking University in= China. I am interest >> in the FreeBSD project of "Timecounter Performance Improvements". >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I am familiar with Linux kernel and vi= rtualization systems, >> like KVM and Xen. I have maintained the Linux Server for my College >> for last whole year. Recently, I learned a lot about KVM and assigned >> VMs to students who need them. I also have experience of install and >> config FreeBSD system. > > Offtopic for your specific requests, but if you or these students would l= ike > to finish porting KVM to FreeBSD, that would also be a great GSoC project= ! > Linux KVM was ported to FreeBSD before: http://retis.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/ But their code are not clean, and the implementation only support FreeBSD 6/7 (due to the changes to the USB stack). Since there may be another big project to clean up their code, FreeBSD dropped that GSoC result. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > --=20 Zhihao Yuan The best way to predict the future is to invent it.