From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 13 17:47:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594AE1065675 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:47:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1A18FC1A for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:47:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A242FB9BD; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:45:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p17; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208131345.55377.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Chris Knight Subject: Re: Hyper-V Integration Components Patch for FreeBSD 8.2, 8.3, 9.0 and 9.1-BETA1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:47:18 -0000 On Monday, August 13, 2012 6:42:55 am Chris Knight wrote: > Hello, > > I've created some patchsets based on the beta release of the Hyper-V > integration components for FreeBSD. > > The patchsets are for 8.2, 8.3, 9.0 and 9.1-BETA1 and can be found here: > http://blog.chrisara.com.au/2012/08/hyper-v-integration-components- for_13.html > > Although the Hyper-V kernel modules compile, they'll cause a kernel > panic if loaded, but I got them built cleanly to allow for easy kernel > swapping using nextboot. > Using GEOM labels makes it easy to swap between a Hyper-V enabled > kernel and a non-Hyper-V enabled kernel. > > It's also worth noting that the Hyper-V network driver is flaky - UDP > works fairly well, but TCP is very flaky. Haven't yet got to the root > cause of this. > > The storage performance increase is very nice, as is the heartbeat and > shutdown capabilities. I've yet to check if KVP functionality is > included. Can you post these to virtualization@ as well? -- John Baldwin