Timecounter Project (GSoc2011)

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 24/03/2011 12:21, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, that is why I suggested finishing the port :) There is enough work in
> finishing the KVM port that it can be a new GSoC project.
>
> (also, finishing FUSE...)
>
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Well, it depends on the decision of core team. AFAIC, to make the KVM
to be committed is very hard, especially for a GSoC project.

But... I think the thread is not talking about the KVM itself...

FUSE works. It's in the ports, as well as many file systems.

-- 
Zhihao Yuan
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.