Re: ARM64 virtualization?

From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca_at_bsdio.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 12:11:42 UTC
I'm getting the Ampere Developer Kit from 
https://www.ipi.wiki/products/com-hpc-ampere-altra .


-- 

Rebecca Cran


On 5/16/23 10:14, Mario Marietto wrote:
> 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
>     <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
>
>