Timecounter Project (GSoc2011)

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at 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.

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Zhihao Yuan
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