From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 12:28:02 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 9BB88106566B for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:28:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555758FC18 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2jdt-00028B-Q1 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:27:57 +0100 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:27:57 +0100 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:27:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:27:44 +0100 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101102 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 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 12:28:02 -0000 On 24/03/2011 12:21, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: >> On 24/03/2011 10:00, Jing Huang wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I am a student of Peking University in China. I am interest >>> in the FreeBSD project of "Timecounter Performance Improvements". >>> >>> I am familiar with Linux kernel and virtualization 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 like >> 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. Yes, that is why I suggested finishing the port :) There is enough work in finishing the KVM port that it can be a new GSoC project. (also, finishing FUSE...)