Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:43:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46524 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504122143.t3CLh6R1033238@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun Apr 12 21:43:05 2015 New Revision: 46524 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46524 Log: Add bhyve report Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Sun Apr 12 21:17:04 2015 (r46523) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Sun Apr 12 21:43:05 2015 (r46524) @@ -454,4 +454,155 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> </project> + <project cat='proj'> + <title>bhyve</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Peter</given> + <common>Grehan</common> + </name> + <email>grehan@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Neel</given> + <common>Natu</common> + </name> + <email>neel@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>John</given> + <common>Baldwin</common> + </name> + <email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Tycho</given> + <common>Nightingale</common> + </name> + <email>tychon@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Allan</given> + <common>Jude</common> + </name> + <email>freebsd@allanjude.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Alexander</given> + <common>Motin</common> + </name> + <email>mav@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.bhyve.org">bhyve FAQ and talks</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>bhyve is a hypervisor that runs on the FreeBSD/amd64 + platform. At present, it runs FreeBSD (8.x or later), Linux + i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, and NetBSD/amd64 guests. Current + development is focused on enabling additional guest operating + systems and implementing features found in other hypervisors.</p> + + <p>Peter Grehan did a status update at bhyvecon 2015 in + Tokyo. The slides are available at <a + href="http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2015-Peter.pdf">; + http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2015-Peter.pdf</a></p>; + + <p>Mihai Carabas presented the results of his GSoC project + on implementing instruction caching in bhyve at AsiaBSDCon + 2015 in Tokyo. The slides are available at <a + href="http://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve-cache-emul-slides.pdf">; + http://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve-cache-emul-slides.pdf</a></p>; + + <p>A number of improvements were made to bhyve this quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>The RTC device model can now be instructed to keep UTC time + instead of localtime. This is useful for guests like OpenBSD + that expect the RTC to keep UTC time.</li> + <li>The virtio-blk device now does I/O asynchronously without + blocking the vcpu thread that initiated the I/O.</li> + <li>The virtio-blk and ahci-hd devices are now able to execute + multiple I/O requests in parallel. This can significantly + boost virtual disk throughput.</li> + <li>The ahci-hd device emulation advertises TRIM to the guest + if the backend device supports it (e.g., ZVOL).</li> + <li>The virtio-blk and ahci-hd devices now advertise the proper + logical and physical block size of the backend device or file.</li> + </ul> + + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Improve documentation.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>bhyveucl is a script for starting bhyve instances based on a + libUCL config file. More information is at + <a + href="https://github.com/allanjude/bhyveucl">https://github.com/allanjude/bhyveucl</a></p>; + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add support for virtio-scsi.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Flexible networking backends: wanproxy, vhost-net.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Move to a single process model, instead of bhyveload + and bhyve.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Support running bhyve as non-root.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add filters for popular VM file formats (VMDK, VHD, + QCOW2).</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Implement an abstraction layer for video (no X11 or SDL in + the base system).</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Suspend/resume support.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Live Migration.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Nested VT-x support (bhyve in bhyve).</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC).</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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