Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:02:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r44569 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201404152202.s3FM2MnW058465@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Apr 15 22:02:21 2014 New Revision: 44569 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44569 Log: - Add 2014Q1 status report for bhyve Submitted by: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 15 21:22:38 2014 (r44568) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 15 22:02:21 2014 (r44569) @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This - report contains 39 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + report contains 40 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -2486,4 +2486,149 @@ device vt_efifb</pre> trying GitLab.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <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> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.bhyve.org">bhyve FAQ and Talks</url> + <url href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOiSyu0-MA">Talk: bhyve Past, Present, Future</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>bhyve is a Type-1 hypervisor that runs on the &os; platform. + It currently only runs &os; (9.x or later) and Linux guests, + current development efforts aim at widening support for other + x86 64-bit operating systems. After a great deal of work by all + involved, bhyve was shipped as part of &os; 10.0-RELEASE. + Increased interest in bhyve and the first usable versions have + provided great feedback and many bug reports.</p> + + <p>A number of important improvements have been made to bhyve this + quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Optionally ignore accesses to unimplemented MSRs</li> + + <li>Support soft power-off via the ACPI S5 state for bhyve + guests</li> + + <li>Graceful shutdown via ACPI on SIGTERM</li> + + <li>Fix issue with virtio-blk devices on Linux guests with more + than 4GB of ram</li> + + <li>Increase the block-layer backend maximum requests to match + AHCI command queue depth</li> + + <li>Add SMBIOS support</li> + + <li>Improve support for nmdm, opening the tty non-blocking</li> + + <li>Add HPET device emulation</li> + + <li>Implement the <q>Virtual Interrupt Delivery</q> and + <q>Posted Interrupt Processing</q> VT-x features on newer + Intel CPUs</li> + + <li>Add support for booting &os;/i386 guests</li> + + <li>Add virtualized XSAVE support for features like AVX</li> + + <li>Add Support for booting from ZFS with bhyveload</li> + </ul> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Improve documentation.</task> + + <task>Write Handbook chapter for bhyve.</task> + + <task>Merge fixes and features back to <tt>stable/10</tt>.</task> + + <task>Support for booting with UEFI instead of userspace + loaders.</task> + + <task>CSM BIOS boot support for &os; (which has no UEFI support + currently).</task> + + <task>Add support for virtio-scsi.</task> + + <task>Improve virtio-net, add offload features, support multiple + queues.</task> + + <task>Implement Intel 82580 and e1000 NIC emulation.</task> + + <task>Netmap support.</task> + + <task>Flexible networking backend: wanproxy, vhost-net.</task> + + <task>Improve resource accounting.</task> + + <task>Move to a single process model, instead of bhyveload and + bhyve.</task> + + <task>Support running bhyve as non-root.</task> + + <task>Add filters for popular VM file formats (VMDK, VHD, + QCOW2).</task> + + <task>Implement an abstraction layer for video (no X11 or SDL in + base system).</task> + + <task>Support for VNC as a video output.</task> + + <task>Implement USB and Sound.</task> + + <task>Suspend/resume support.</task> + + <task>Live Migration.</task> + + <task>Nested VT-x support (bhyve in bhyve).</task> + + <task>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC).</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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