best branch for bhyve on AMD?

[Peter Grehan]

Hi John,

> Am I right in thinking that bhyve support for AMD processors is not
> yet in -STABLE?

  Yes, that's correct.

> If so, is there working code for bhyve under AMD anywhere? Where?
> -HEAD, projects/bhyve_svm or somewhere else?

  projects/bhyve_svm

> Is it considered experimental, stable, or something in between?

  I'd home somewhere on the stable side of experimental. I've had good 
success with it on a Phenom II, but looks like at least 1 user has had 
issues.

> Should  it work with the above processor?

  I think your model may be predate the h/w nested paging support that 
bhyve relies on (EPT, or RVI in early AMD terminology). The list of AMD 
CPUs with RVI is at:

 
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/GPU120AMDRVICPUsHyperVWin8.aspx

  ... and the Athlon 64 X2 isn't on that list :(

later,

Peter.