[RFC] Moving bhyve to head

Kurt Lidl lidl at pix.net
Thu Jan 10 16:26:29 UTC 2013


>   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.

This is exciting news.  I would be very happy to see this in CURRENT.

-Kurt



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