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Date:      Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:27:44 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Timecounter Project (GSoc2011)
Message-ID:  <imfdc0$ivp$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimRty2GP1x3JdimQ%2B8Y6Co9cd0A=KcZkLfcG3%2Bb@mail.gmail.com>
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On 24/03/2011 12:21, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Ivan Voras<ivoras@freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> On 24/03/2011 10:00, Jing Huang wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>>           I am a student of Peking University in China. I am interest
>>> in the FreeBSD project of "Timecounter Performance Improvements".
>>>
>>>           I am familiar with Linux kernel and virtualization systems,
>>> like KVM and Xen. I have maintained the Linux Server for my College
>>> for last whole year. Recently, I learned a lot about KVM and assigned
>>> VMs to students who need them. I also have experience of install and
>>> config FreeBSD system.
>>
>> Offtopic for your specific requests, but if you or these students would like
>> to finish porting KVM to FreeBSD, that would also be a great GSoC project!
>>
>
> Linux KVM was ported to FreeBSD before:
> http://retis.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/
>
> But their code are not clean, and the implementation only support
> FreeBSD 6/7 (due to the changes to the USB stack). Since there may be
> another big project to clean up their code, FreeBSD dropped that GSoC
> result.

Yes, that is why I suggested finishing the port :) There is enough work 
in finishing the KVM port that it can be a new GSoC project.

(also, finishing FUSE...)




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