FreeBSD KVM port

[K. Macy]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Prateek Sharma <prateek3.14 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for informing about BHyve.
>
> But KVM is feature-complete, and has been around for a long time as
> well. Also supports a large number of guests etc.

And is GPL and dependent on Linux APIs. Any KVM port will
intrinsically be dependent on shimming to Linux APIs with all the
problems that that potentially entails.


Cheers


> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:15 PM, K. Macy <kmacy at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Courtesy of NetApp, FreeBSD has grown its own hypervisor "BHyve". I
>> don't have the initial commit at hand but it shouldn't be hard to
>> find. This is still a bit green, but is quite promising.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Prateek Sharma <prateek3.14 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>   I wanted to know the status of KVM (qemu-kvm) on FreeBSD. There
>>> seems to have been some work done earlier
>>> [http://retis.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/] , but it seems quite old
>>> (2007) .
>>>
>>>    Is it possible to run KVM on freebsd, or is there some work
>>> already going into this ?
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