From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 08:35:32 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A91C9CEF; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 08:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22f.google.com (mail-pd0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 757C4AE; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 08:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pdbnk13 with SMTP id nk13so108216996pdb.0; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:35:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=g8vvMgUtzLyb77hjX4+3nRIRwD4xhIXV4zjOG29Fs8A=; b=D5TsSC2D3ms7vD2dyLF1CVu1nBaFOtS4jbh8OvfNoL+Qcksy4xKsMVf8spq0CYDEDp yPZolN1GURnXowEAwUERU3eNxMCrAFzM4RnB3BbFoiEEc0X6F6dW1mJuGtmIUw4+rrPh tG55sBhXYIDjtqT5n8TslkAbZf8vEw21YRL75vVyvZB5YlQqP+WhwjekrpAhAL5JBD5O QWW7i8MUaK1jIU7vs5OiyFa+GGpd9h+6s+YPausl1kl0dIXBRuH+jjrR3gHQcfkEdPQa ta0rGGrj3nw1S/LQHBIFHk+vyHhYaFaox4bw3F707N3jCLX7X13NBO3PqyTUjqPLaSzF zTWQ== X-Received: by 10.66.154.162 with SMTP id vp2mr43731172pab.73.1428482131993; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:35:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.66.183.41 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 01:35:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <552452FE.4040209@freebsd.org> References: <552452FE.4040209@freebsd.org> From: Stacey Pellegrino Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:35:11 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Fwd: Bhyve port to Gentoo Linux/FreeBSD and support for AMD64 with PCI pass through... To: Peter Grehan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 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, 08 Apr 2015 08:35:32 -0000 Thanks for the response Peter. Please email me and/or put me on a mailing list when AMD PCI passthru is supported as this would be much needed for my existing hardware investment and currently unusable graphics card on FreeBSD. Thanks. On 7 April 2015 at 22:58, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Stacey, > > Can someone provide me (or forward onto the relevant person/team) an >> update >> on the Bhyve development? I have been trying ever so hard to find out >> about >> the latest AMD Catalyst graphics drivers for FreeBSD (rumours on the >> internet that they exist and/or are in development) so that I can run >> multiple displays from my Sapphire Radeon R9 290X. It could still be >> possible to use this graphics card with FreeBSD 10.1 by means of PCI pass >> through with Bhyve, although (as I found out with extensive testing with >> Xen) it is Intel processor favored and supported. When is AMD64 support >> coming up to the level of development that Intel processors are getting? >> > > AMD processor support in bhyve is almost at the level of Intel processor > support, with one notable gap being the lack of IOMMU support which is > required for PCI passthru. > > When will Windows and Mac OS X Snow Leopard onwards be supported? >> > > Windows is (slowly) being worked on. Nothing is happening with OSX to my > knowledge. > > Are installations headless and require something like VNC? >> > > Installations are currently via the guest's serial console. > > later, > > Peter. > >