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Andras Lipoth andras.lipoth at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 19:37:01 PDT 2009


>>> Are there any plans to revive support for this platform??
>>
>> I was hoping to work on it and started reading up.  Unfortunately,
>> Real Life got in the way and I have made very little progress.
>>
>> At this stage, until/unless I get a driver working for at least the
>> virtual network (and preferably virtual disk as well), I can't make
>> any further progress.  Whilst there are both Linux and OpenSolaris
>> vnet drivers, both rely on a substantial amount of infrastructure that
>> doesn't currently exist in FreeBSD (and needs non-trivial effort to
>> port).
>>
>
> Mark Kettenis has done some awesome work on this already.
> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090201164147&mode=expanded
>

Would it be a major effort to port the vnet and vdsk drivers to FreeBSD?

Andras


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