Re: ARM64 virtualization?

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 16:14:11 UTC
Hello Rebecca,

i will be happy to help you. what system you will buy ? i want to evaluate
the cost. If it is affordable for me I will also buy the same and i could
test your code or something else task that you need. i ve been always
interested in the bhyve development.

Il mar 16 mag 2023, 17:41 Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> ha scritto:

> 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.
>
>
> --
>
> Rebecca Cran
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