From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 30 18:34:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07AA106564A for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:34:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kmacybsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E348FC17 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so2543179vws.13 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:34:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Aly7UMVUtk8Wsl7qk3uM5BetlZjI+EMBwYjYmC62cQU=; b=n4DWjTVVMy/Q7pCst1Sx8BWWYp4GzjKylZVRcMfttv9Kh6qGxSKp8h6armHZ3NH3Qs 4dNeHTGIew3BXmAQaSTPNaqT7oAMOG76dY9pmcVSBGfjW9+1FkCUwClpWIYA12DyW9EC S4RwAH++QJW7KIGCqUAXtq3CuRMfKXk8Ncu5c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.179.131 with SMTP id dg3mr3434282vdc.9.1309458863561; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kmacybsd@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.113.194 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:34:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:34:23 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: FTHzPbQWmKWOKBzgobVoCKMI6KA Message-ID: From: "K. Macy" To: Prateek Sharma Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD KVM port X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:34:25 -0000 On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Prateek Sharma wro= te: > Thanks for informing about BHyve. > > But KVM is feature-complete, and has been around for a long time as > well. Also supports a large number of guests etc. And is GPL and dependent on Linux APIs. Any KVM port will intrinsically be dependent on shimming to Linux APIs with all the problems that that potentially entails. Cheers > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:15 PM, K. Macy wrote: >> Courtesy of NetApp, FreeBSD has grown its own hypervisor "BHyve". I >> don't have the initial commit at hand but it shouldn't be hard to >> find. This is still a bit green, but is quite promising. >> >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Prateek Sharma = wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> =A0 I wanted to know the status of KVM (qemu-kvm) on FreeBSD. There >>> seems to have been some work done earlier >>> [http://retis.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/] , but it seems quite old >>> (2007) . >>> >>> =A0 =A0Is it possible to run KVM on freebsd, or is there some work >>> already going into this ? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@fr= eebsd.org" >>> >> >