RE: Bhyve on ppc64

Joe Nosay <superbisquit_at_gmail.com> wrote on
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:04:47 UTC :

> Has this been built; or, will I need to edit?


https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/virtualization/#virtualization-host-bhyve
reports:

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The bhyve design requires

    • an Intel® processor that supports Intel Extended Page Tables (EPT),

    • or an AMD® processor that supports AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI), or Nested Page Tables (NPT),

    • or an ARM® aarch64 CPU.

Only pure ARMv8.0 virtualization is supported on ARM, the Virtualization Host Extensions are not currently used. Hosting Linux® guests or FreeBSD guests with more than one vCPU requires VMX unrestricted mode support (UG).

The easiest way to tell if an Intel or AMD processor supports bhyve is to run dmesg or look in /var/run/dmesg.bootfor the POPCNT processor feature flag on the Features2 line for AMD® processors or EPT and UG on the VT-xline for Intel® processors.
END QUOTE

I read that as: no implementation for running on ppc64 is available
to even try to build. The source code for that would have to be
created first.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com