HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD

[Anish Gupta]

Hi all,

The projects/bhyve_svm branch is ready to be merged to HEAD.

This branch contains patches to bhyve to enable it to work on AMD
processors with SVM/AMD-V hardware extensions[1]. Pretty much any AMD
processor since 2010 will have the features required by bhyve.

bhyve on AMD supports (almost) all the features available with Intel
[2]. All guest OSes supported on Intel are supported on AMD. All the
bhyve-related utilities function similarly on both Intel and AMD
platforms [3].

The patch against HEAD revision 273066 is available for review and testing:
https://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve_svm.diff [Neel’s web directory]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
[2]: bhyve doesn't support PCI passthru on AMD at this time
[3]: bhyvectl has grown some processor-specific options

Thanks and regards,
Peter, Neel & Anish[akgupt3 at gmail.com]