best branch for bhyve on AMD?

[Thomas Hoffmann]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:14 PM, John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am running FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE r261733 amd64 on a system with an AMD
> "Brisbane" CPU:
>
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ (2835.16-MHz K8-class
> CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x60fb2  Family = 0xf  Model = 0x6b
>  Stepping = 2
>
> Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
>   Features2=0x2001<SSE3,CX16>
>   AMD Features=0xea500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
>   AMD Features2=0x11f<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,Prefetch>
>
> "kldload vmm" gives these kernel messages:
>   amd_iommu_init: not implemented
>   amdv_init: not implemented
>   amdv_cleanup: not implemented
>   module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vmm, 0xffffffff80f5abf0, 0) error 6
>
> and "# bhyveload -m 256 -d /dev/zvol/bigz/bhyvetest bhyvetest" gives:
>   vm_create: Device not configured
>
> Am I right in thinking that bhyve support for AMD processors is not yet in
> -STABLE?
>
> If so, is there working code for bhyve under AMD anywhere? Where? -HEAD,
> projects/bhyve_svm or somewhere else? Is it considered experimental,
> stable, or something in between? Should it work with the above processor?
>
> Looking forward to trying bhyve on this hardware.
>
> Thanks!
>
> JN
>
 This might answer some of your questions: http://bhyve.org/faq/