Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:19:43 +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: r47605 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510171919.t9HJJhli053597@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Oct 17 19:19:43 2015 New Revision: 47605 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47605 Log: Add bhyve report from grehan Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 18:50:52 2015 (r47604) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 19:19:43 2015 (r47605) @@ -2164,4 +2164,139 @@ </help> </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>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>Michael</given> + <common>Dexter</common> + </name> + <email>editor@callfortesting.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.bhyve.org">bhyve FAQ and talks</url> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2015/NE2000EmulationForBhyve">NE2000 + device emulation GSoC project</url> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2015/PortingBhyveToArm">Porting + bhyve to ARM GSoC project</url> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2015/ptnetmapOnBhyve">ptnetmap + support in bhyve GSoC project</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p><tt>bhyve</tt> is a hypervisor that runs on the &os;/amd64 + platform. At present, it runs &os; (8.x or later), Linux + i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, NetBSD/amd64, Illumos, and Windows + Vista/7/8/10/2008r2/2012r2/2016 x64 guests. Current development + is focused on enabling additional guest operating systems and + implementing features found in other hypervisors.</p> + + <p>A combined <tt>bhyve</tt> and ZFS BoF was held during vBSDCon 2015, + hosted by Michael Dexter and Allan Jude. Questions asked about + <tt>bhyve</tt> were live migration and suspend/resume support, and + configurations using ZFS.</p> + + <p>Three bhyve-related project were selected for GSoC 2015: + NE2000 device emulation, porting <tt>bhyve</tt> to ARM, and + ptnetmap support.</p> + + <p>The major enhancement for <tt>bhyve</tt> this quarter was + support for an external firmware, along with a port of the Intel + edk2 UEFI firmware. This allows bhyve to run Windows in headless + mode, and also Illumos.</p> + + <ul> + <li> <url href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?561187FB.8040506"> Windows support</url> </li> + <li> <url href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?56118B2B.2040101"> Illumos support</url> </li> + </ul> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Improve the documentation.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p><tt>bhyveucl</tt> is a work-in-progress script for + starting <tt>bhyve</tt> instances based on a libUCL config file. + More information 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>Support running <tt>bhyve</tt> 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 + base system).</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Suspend/resume support.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Live Migration.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Nested VT-x support (<tt>bhyve</tt> in <tt>bhyve</tt>).</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC).</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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