Re: ARM64 virtualization?

Hi Rebecca,

I would be very interested in hearing about your experience with it,
particularly how noisy it is. $2621 for an 80 core workstation seems like a
really good deal :)

DOug.


On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 13:11, Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>
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