Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:35:11 +0100 From: Stacey Pellegrino <stacey.pellegrino@gmail.com> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Bhyve port to Gentoo Linux/FreeBSD and support for AMD64 with PCI pass through... Message-ID: <CAKNxVbP2bB4XA129%2Bi_LMOYBOSKVUTmBoEZzVc-arj94rFjWNA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <552452FE.4040209@freebsd.org> References: <CAKNxVbO8Ld7xSCLJmLWccQ8jD-uP9AsK-Z4DofP7B8dzkqybKQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAKNxVbN%2BfwGgduFcVOPQD3dOsAx7KJztF6s7SkDPt%2Bz9o_%2BTDA@mail.gmail.com> <552452FE.4040209@freebsd.org>
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Thanks for the response Peter. Please email me and/or put me on a mailing list when AMD PCI passthru is supported as this would be much needed for my existing hardware investment and currently unusable graphics card on FreeBSD. Thanks. On 7 April 2015 at 22:58, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi Stacey, > > Can someone provide me (or forward onto the relevant person/team) an >> update >> on the Bhyve development? I have been trying ever so hard to find out >> about >> the latest AMD Catalyst graphics drivers for FreeBSD (rumours on the >> internet that they exist and/or are in development) so that I can run >> multiple displays from my Sapphire Radeon R9 290X. It could still be >> possible to use this graphics card with FreeBSD 10.1 by means of PCI pass >> through with Bhyve, although (as I found out with extensive testing with >> Xen) it is Intel processor favored and supported. When is AMD64 support >> coming up to the level of development that Intel processors are getting? >> > > AMD processor support in bhyve is almost at the level of Intel processor > support, with one notable gap being the lack of IOMMU support which is > required for PCI passthru. > > When will Windows and Mac OS X Snow Leopard onwards be supported? >> > > Windows is (slowly) being worked on. Nothing is happening with OSX to my > knowledge. > > Are installations headless and require something like VNC? >> > > Installations are currently via the guest's serial console. > > later, > > Peter. > >
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