svn commit: r45763 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Warren Block <[email protected]>
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Author: wblock Date: Fri Oct 10 01:16:29 2014 New Revision: 45763 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45763 Log: Add bhyve report. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Fri Oct 10 00:54:37 2014 (r45762) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Fri Oct 10 01:16:29 2014 (r45763) @@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ <given>Sean</given> <common>Bruno</common> </name> - <email>[email protected]</email> + <email>[email protected]</email> </person> <person> @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ <given>Juergen</given> <common>Lock</common> </name> - <email>[email protected]</email> + <email>[email protected]</email> </person> <person> @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ <given>Stacey</given> <common>Son</common> </name> - <email>[email protected]</email> + <email>[email protected]</email> </person> </contact> @@ -1244,4 +1244,178 @@ explanations and details on methods.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='proj'> + <title><tt>bhyve</tt></title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Peter</given> + <common>Grehan</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Neel</given> + <common>Natu</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>John</given> + <common>Baldwin</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Tycho</given> + <common>Nightingale</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Allan</given> + <common>Jude</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.bhyve.org">bhyve FAQ and talks</url> + <url href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOiSyu0-MA">bhyve past, present, future</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p><tt>bhyve</tt> is a hypervisor that runs on the FreeBSD/amd64 + platform. At present, it runs FreeBSD (8.x or later), Linux + i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, and NetBSD/amd64 guests. + Current development is focused on enabling additional guest + operating systems, and implementing features found in other + hypervisors.</p> + + <p>A significant amount of progress has been made since the last + status report. Most importantly, all of this work has been + MFCed to the 10-STABLE branch and will be included in the 10.1 + release.</p> + + <p>Support for AMD processors is being developed in the + <tt>bhyve_svm</tt> SVN project branch. The branch is almost + at feature-parity with mainline Intel VT-x support, and will + be committed into -CURRENT in the near future.</p> + + <p>New features added this quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Guest support for recent Linux i386/x64, OpenBSD + i386/amd64, and NetBSD amd64.</li> + + <li>Force guest reset and poweroff with <tt>bhyvectl</tt></li> + + <li>Allow the SMBIOS UUID to be set from the command line</li> + + <li>PCI MMIO extended config space access</li> + + <li>Improved AHCI error handling, legacy interrupt mode</li> + + <li>Additional instruction emulation required by a number of + guests</li> + + <li>Legacy x86 task switching to support double-faults in + FreeBSD/i386</li> + + <li>Legacy PCI interrupts, operation without an APIC (OpenBSD + install)</li> + + <li>Guest memory not included by default in core dumps</li> + + <li>Allow guest vCPUs to be pinned to individual host + CPUs</li> + + <li>Virtio RNG device emulation</li> + + <li>Chapter about <tt>bhyve</tt> added to FreeBSD + Handbook</li> + </ul> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Improve documentation</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>CSM BIOS boot support for non UEFI-aware guests</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add support for virtio-scsi</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Improve virtio-net, add offload features, support multiple + queues</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Implement Intel 82580 and e1000 NIC emulation</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Netmap support</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Flexible networking backend: wanproxy, vhost-net</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Move to a single process model, instead of + <tt>bhyveload</tt> and <tt>bhyve</tt></p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Support running <tt>bhyve</tt> as non-root</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add filters for popular VM file formats (VMDK, VHD, + QCOW2)</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Implement an abstraction layer for video (no X11 or SDL in + base system)</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Support for VNC as a video output</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Suspend/resume support</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Live Migration</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Nested VT-x support (bhyve in bhyve)</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC)</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-doc-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"