best branch for bhyve on AMD?

[John Nielsen]

On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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 :(

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, it looks like only K10-ish and newer have RVI, and my Brisbane is the last of the K8s. Bummer. I'll have to see if my board will take a newer processor. :)

JN