Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 12:37:49 -0600 From: Dustin Marquess <dmarquess@gmail.com> To: Gerd Hafenbrack <gerd.hafenbrack@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD CPUs Message-ID: <CAJpsHY7FYzXV7W3L3P1kbyodGqFT78omTSvhdYZRfZQVxLumFQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56B383B6.20100@gmail.com> References: <56B32F11.7050100@gmail.com> <56B34238.2070804@citrix.com> <56B383B6.20100@gmail.com>
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I'm using bhyve on my AMD box because of this exact reason. It's working well enough for me! -Dustin On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Gerd Hafenbrack <gerd.hafenbrack@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-02-04 13:21, Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 wrote: >> El 4/2/16 a les 11:59, Gerd Hafenbrack ha escrit: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I read on http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0 the following: >>>> ... to run a FreeBSD PVH Dom0 an Intel box with EPT and a working IOMM= U is required. >>> >>> Why only intel and not an AMD CPU with Rapid Virtualization Indexing >>> (RVI) and IOMMU as well? >> >> There's no technical reason on why this was done this way. It's just >> that the original PVH implementation inside of Xen was badly designed, >> and one of the results is the lack of support on AMD hardware. This is >> not related to FreeBSD at all, Linux has the same exact problem. >> >> I'm (together with other people) currently working on removing this (and >> other) stupid limitation by doing a proper implementation of PVH inside >> of Xen. This new implementation is ATM called HVMlite. Sadly I can not >> yet provide an ETA on when this is going to be finished. Once HVMlite is >> finished inside of Xen FreeBSD will hopefully be able to run on AMD >> hardware just like it does on Intel one. I will do a HEADS UP once this >> is in testing state. >> >> Roger. > > Thx. > > I have to use an AMD box. > > In the meantime: > bhyve? Already mature enough? > or > VirtualBox? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@free= bsd.org"
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