Greetings from SmartOS

[Julian Elischer]

On 26/4/18 1:12 pm, Patrick Mooney wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm a member of the team at Joyent working to port bhyve to SmartOS
> (and eventually illumos).  While illumos already has a port of
> KVM/qemu, the design goals and community around bhyve appear to be a
> much better match for us.  Like ZFS, DTrace, and most recently the BSD
> loader, this seems to be an area where we can benefit through
> collaboration.
welcome From this timezone (awake at this time).
I'm sure others will join as the sun makes it's Journey westward.
We've found that the various sun-inspired groups have been good
development partners. It makes sense to share work.. developers are a 
scarce resource.

>
> Starting this autumn with the initial port Pluribus crafted in their
who's autumn? Autumn started 7 weeks ago here. That's quick work! :-)
> OpenSolaris fork, we've made good progress on pulling in trunk bhyve
> from FreeBSD and integrating it into illumos-joyent.  Test results
> have been positive and we're hoping to see it deployed in a wider
> fashion soon.
>
> Now that the project is stabilizing on our end, we would like to reach
> out about upstreaming fixes or feature work back into FreeBSD.  One
> small fix to posted interrupt handling on Intel
> (https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-6829) might be a good starting point
> for us to walk through the process of review and upstreaming.
>
>
> Looking forward to working with you further,
>
> - Patrick Mooney
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Julian
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