Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:03:43 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> To: Anish Gupta <akgupt3@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Cc: Neel Natu <neel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD Message-ID: <5443A89F.8050801@digiware.nl> In-Reply-To: <154A442D-7814-4618-9AFC-6F9FB3F5DFD3@gmail.com> References: <154A442D-7814-4618-9AFC-6F9FB3F5DFD3@gmail.com>
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On 16-10-2014 5:00, Anish Gupta wrote: > Hi all, > > The projects/bhyve_svm branch is ready to be merged to HEAD. > > This branch contains patches to bhyve to enable it to work on AMD > processors with SVM/AMD-V hardware extensions[1]. Pretty much any AMD > processor since 2010 will have the features required by bhyve. > > bhyve on AMD supports (almost) all the features available with Intel > [2]. All guest OSes supported on Intel are supported on AMD. All the > bhyve-related utilities function similarly on both Intel and AMD > platforms [3]. > > The patch against HEAD revision 273066 is available for review and testing: > https://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve_svm.diff [Neel’s web directory] > > [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization > [2]: bhyve doesn't support PCI passthru on AMD at this time > [3]: bhyvectl has grown some processor-specific options Fetched the patch and compiled. Now running: HEAD r273066M and I was able to throw at it all the tests and images that in the past works. And perhaps even better. Great work. --WjW
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