FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

Thu May 23 13:33:29 UTC 2013

On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com> wrote:
>> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we
>> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide
>> feedback.
> 
> I've just been able to install it on a VPS using the latest pvhvm_v9 branch.

The branch pvhvm_v9 contains an initial implementation of PV IPIs for
amd64. I've now finished it and I'm going to port it to i386 also, and
push a new branch to the repository.

> This is good news, because the system I had before actually had trouble with the HVM kernel from 9.1 [0].
> 
> I'm going to leave this running for a while and do some more tests on it.
> 
> Jeroen.
> 
> 
> [0]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=175822
> 