From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 23:51:26 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481F42D7 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:51:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@rewt.org.uk) Received: from abby.lhr1.as41113.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:b70:201:2::22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D254C8FC12 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.11.21] (bella.stf.rewt.org.uk [91.208.177.62]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by abby.lhr1.as41113.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3YB1wr0Tz2z13N1; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:51:23 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <50B551F3.5000203@rewt.org.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:51:15 +0000 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Venteicher Subject: Re: virtio for 9.1-R References: <1413359714.1585.1354058524040.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> In-Reply-To: <1413359714.1585.1354058524040.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sergey Kandaurov , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:51:26 -0000 On 27/11/2012 23:22, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > Hi, > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joe Holden" >> To: "Sergey Kandaurov" >> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:49:07 PM >> Subject: Re: virtio for 9.1-R >> >> On 27/11/2012 19:25, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: >>> On 27 November 2012 22:12, Joe Holden wrote: >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> I can't see virtio in releng/9.1, is there any particular reason >>>> why it >>>> isn't going to be included given that it works reasonable well >>>> (and is >>>> optional anyway, so not likely to be detrimental)? >>> >>> virtio appeared in stable/9 a bit after 9.1 cut off, >>> and it is too late now regardless of virtio shape. >>> Anyway you can installed it from ports. >>> >> Ah I see, doesn't really help all the people who can't install it in >> KVM >> and such though unfortunately, seems silly making them wait even >> longer and having to use Linux :) >> > > Yes - it is long overdue and something I plan to fix in the next > month. There have been off-list patches floating around that do > just that. > > I also plan to spend my spare time in Dec. to work on FreeBSD > VirtIO improvements/bugs/nags. I've been busy with $JOB and have > been busy finishing up a VMware vmxnet driver. > > Bryan > >> cheers >> _______________________________________________ Sounds good, FWIW I've been using it for a while and it works rather well (on 9.0-R), of course this requires that the KVM instance can be switched to ide mode first (or a custom iso/image uploaded which isn't always possible)