Re: ARM64 virtualization?

Rebecca Cran <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/15/23 13:58, Matthew Grooms wrote:

> On 5/15/2023 2:39 PM, John F Carr wrote:
>> Is there any active work on getting bhyve virtualization working on 
>> 64 bit ARM?  I see some work was started a few years ago (e.g. 
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26976, 
>> https://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2016-Mihai.pdf).  It seems to have been 
>> abandoned or at least stalled.
>>
>> I may be able to help.  It's not a project I can take on myself.
>
> Porting bhyve to arm has been one of the longest running UPB projects. 
> You can find more info on the history here ...
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202303?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Presentation+-+bhyvecon.pdf 
>
>
> Your best bet is probably to take a look a the following review opened 
> by Andrew Turner late last year. His work is based on the original 
> port by the UPB team ...
>
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37428
>
> I can't speak to the current state of this work. From what I recall, 
> there were several attempts made by UPB to collaborate, but they 
> failed to get a response. Perhaps he/they can chime in here with more 
> detail.

I'll be getting an Ampere system in the next few weeks and hope to be 
able to work on the Aarch64 bhyve code.


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Rebecca Cran
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