Kernel Virtual Machine

[Ivan Voras]

Danny Braniss wrote:
> sorry for the cross-posting, but not realy sure where this
> belongs.
> 
> Linux just incorporated this, so I was wondering if anything
> along this lines is being done/concidered for FreeBSD?
> see:
> 	http://aplawrence.com/Linux/kvm_virtualization.html
> 	http://osdir.com/Article9554.phtml

Direct port is not possible because of licensing reasons (LGPL).

But it would be extremely nice to have at least SOME full virtualization
capability in FreeBSD (qemu is too slow) :( All new (from almost two
years ago) server class CPUs support hardware virtualization, and it's
also present in most new desktop CPUs.