From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 07:57:31 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@nevdull.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3A15BE for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:57:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xmj@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [8.8.178.136]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "hub.freebsd.org", Issuer "hub.freebsd.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97610EF0 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:57:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xmj@freebsd.org) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 8D2A5BD; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: virtualization@nevdull.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C70DBC for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:57:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xmj@freebsd.org) Received: from dd16522.kasserver.com (dd16522.kasserver.com [85.13.137.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F2C8EED; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:57:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xmj@freebsd.org) Received: from mx12.chaot.net (82.131.85.156.cable.starman.ee [82.131.85.156]) by dd16522.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE9378D4002; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:57:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx12.chaot.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]); by mx12.chaot.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 5d6816a5; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:57:20 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <55891160.2030502@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:57:20 +0300 From: Johannes Jost Meixner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Grehan , "Leo R. Lundgren" CC: virtualization@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Windows support status References: <55881E08.5010906@freebsd.org> <19CB2CC1-FB10-42CF-A10B-DACF009CC65F@finalresort.org> <55885E1D.1010402@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <55885E1D.1010402@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:57:31 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Peter, Leo, On 06/22/2015 22:12, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Leo, > >> Forgive my ignorance, but when you talk about the UEFI build I >> don't suppose you mean that one must run the UEFI "version" of >> FreeBSD, right? I assume you mean that bhyve is presenting UEFI >> to the guest. > > That's right. We have a custom build of Intel UEFI firmware that > gets placed into guest ROM space. This is different than the > previous approach of having external user-space loaders > (bhyveload/grub-bhyve). Cool! Does that UEFI Firmware come with a way to running very old things, e.g. DOS 6.2.2, Windows 3.11 or Windows 95? > >> Will one be able to run this on 10.1-RELEASE, or must one use >> 11-CURRENT? > > It'll be on 11-CURRENT initially and will be backported to > 10-STABLE. I don't know think it's going to make the 10.2 cutoff > :( I remember asking you in Ottawa about it, but forgot your answer. What's the timeline for bringing it into 11.0-CURRENT? > > later, > > Peter. - -- Johannes Meixner | FreeBSD Committer xmj@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~xmj -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJViRFZAAoJEPyeKTcbGw0LBgsH/ishP4gmsE1Mrbu9tmtsednz 84iYg8Nn4TfJ0bOR0kGjXl5CctcfNJR3eF1CJunJrnfgcdxVfghlXCs0Fu3wMs0p VrpqKQK+UHu88Fv9y7l0O1Ly+Acx6lr4lsXXUk2D9XpgivKwZw5rylxcOtu6YHlw 9d2l7KR062jMHiya0EKvtzqxS2e61I4JGTP2ygRgsQELo2bYcpVWt9BsTcNQdGvv hm9ynQqGk141x4kY+UJyag8UH9INfB7Fr+GfAYOIE2MQ/UgRWEEHW3v42T/djTuX EyQwRZllKYQlKp6p1vA2jSDW0eDlY2/BgZpZFHahghzn9pdUHE5cyMtV2hCz/Eg= =8Z0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----