Fwd: Bhyve port to Gentoo Linux/FreeBSD and support for AMD64 with PCI pass through...

[Stacey Pellegrino]

When is work on IOMMU support for AMD processors to enable PCI passthru
expected to be completed?

On 8 April 2015 at 09:35, Stacey Pellegrino <stacey.pellegrino at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the response Peter. Please email me and/or put me on a mailing
> list when AMD PCI passthru is supported as this would be much needed for my
> existing hardware investment and currently unusable graphics card on
> FreeBSD. Thanks.
>
> On 7 April 2015 at 22:58, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Stacey,
>>
>>  Can someone provide me (or forward onto the relevant person/team) an
>>> update
>>> on the Bhyve development? I have been trying ever so hard to find out
>>> about
>>> the latest AMD Catalyst graphics drivers for FreeBSD (rumours on the
>>> internet that they exist and/or are in development) so that I can run
>>> multiple displays from my Sapphire Radeon R9 290X. It could still be
>>> possible to use this graphics card with FreeBSD 10.1 by means of PCI pass
>>> through with Bhyve, although (as I found out with extensive testing with
>>> Xen) it is Intel processor favored and supported. When is AMD64 support
>>> coming up to the level of development that Intel processors are getting?
>>>
>>
>>  AMD processor support in bhyve is almost at the level of Intel processor
>> support, with one notable gap being the lack of IOMMU support which is
>> required for PCI passthru.
>>
>>  When will Windows and Mac OS X Snow Leopard onwards be supported?
>>>
>>
>>  Windows is (slowly) being worked on. Nothing is happening with OSX to my
>> knowledge.
>>
>>  Are installations headless and require something like VNC?
>>>
>>
>>  Installations are currently via the guest's serial console.
>>
>> later,
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>>
>