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Peter, bhyve has been a huge boon and very successful for many of us.  A 
few people have asked me if the code will be available in -stable soon.

Is that possible?  Can I help in any fashion?

-Alfred

On 1/8/13 9:17 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:
>  Neel and I would like to move bhyve development from the
> projects/bhyve branch into CURRENT. This will allow the code
> to reach a wider audience before 10, and provide us with better
> feedback on what features should be prioritized.
>
>  The intent of bhyve is to provide a small, extendible codebase
> that allows FreeBSD users to easily run virtual machines. Currently,
> bhyve supports running FreeBSD/amd64 guests on FreeBSD/amd64
> hosts with Intel VT-x and EPT CPU support. Additional guest operating 
> systems should be available in the near future, as will AMD-SVM CPU 
> support.
>
>  bhyve is implemented as a kernel module and user-level utilities. Note
> that it has zero impact on the system until the module is loaded.
>
> The raw diff against CURRENT can be viewed at
>     http://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/diff.txt
>
> (A sanitized diff, without the svn mergeinfo, is at:
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/diff_without_mergeinfo.txt
>
>  A listing of modified and added files with annotations is at:
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/diff_filenames_only.txt)
>
>  Info on bhyve and installation instructions can be found at
>    http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe
>    http://bhyve.org
>
>  Comments and review requested :)
>
> later,
>
> Peter & Neel.
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