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$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimRty2GP1x3JdimQ%2B8Y6Co9cd0A=KcZkLfcG3%2Bb@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim1CHsasQTNqGDSHqP_Vesvb03FxDixiLfEJu8_@mail.gmail.com> <imf71f$e7h$1@dough.gmane.org> <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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