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Hi,

> The bhyve site says, "AMD SVN support arrived on August 22nd, 2013
> with FreeBSD svn r254677 and requires testing."
>
> How can we tell which AMD processors are supported?  Would that be
> the same AMD processors that are listed on the following page as
> having "Rapid Virtualization Indexing Required to Run Hyper-V in
> Windows 8"?
>
> http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU120AMDRVICPUsHyperVWin8.aspx

  Yes, that would be it. The RVI support has been there in CPUs for 
quite a long time now - it would be hard to find a recent AMD CPU that 
doesn't have it.

> Or is bhyve using a different feature of some AMD processors?

  No, that's the main one.

> I'm a co-developer, with Aryeh Friedman, of a forthcoming possible
> front end for bhyve.

  Cool !

later,

Peter.