svn commit: r46524 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Apr 12 21:43:06 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Apr 12 21:43:05 2015
New Revision: 46524
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46524

Log:
  Add bhyve report
  
  Approved by:	hrs (mentor, implicit)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Sun Apr 12 21:17:04 2015	(r46523)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Sun Apr 12 21:43:05 2015	(r46524)
@@ -454,4 +454,155 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
 
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>bhyve</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Peter</given>
+	  <common>Grehan</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>grehan at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Neel</given>
+	  <common>Natu</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>neel at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>John</given>
+	  <common>Baldwin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>jhb at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Tycho</given>
+	  <common>Nightingale</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>tychon at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Allan</given>
+	  <common>Jude</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>freebsd at allanjude.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Alexander</given>
+	  <common>Motin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mav at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://www.bhyve.org">bhyve FAQ and talks</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>bhyve is a hypervisor that runs on the FreeBSD/amd64
+	platform.  At present, it runs FreeBSD (8.x or later), Linux
+	i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, and NetBSD/amd64 guests.  Current
+	development is focused on enabling additional guest operating
+	systems and implementing features found in other hypervisors.</p>
+
+      <p>Peter Grehan did a status update at bhyvecon 2015 in
+	Tokyo.  The slides are available at <a
+	href="http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2015-Peter.pdf">
+	http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2015-Peter.pdf</a></p>
+
+      <p>Mihai Carabas presented the results of his GSoC project
+	on implementing instruction caching in bhyve at AsiaBSDCon
+	2015 in Tokyo.  The slides are available at <a
+	href="http://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve-cache-emul-slides.pdf">
+	http://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve-cache-emul-slides.pdf</a></p>
+
+      <p>A number of improvements were made to bhyve this quarter:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>The RTC device model can now be instructed to keep UTC time
+	  instead of localtime.  This is useful for guests like OpenBSD
+	  that expect the RTC to keep UTC time.</li>
+	<li>The virtio-blk device now does I/O asynchronously without
+	  blocking the vcpu thread that initiated the I/O.</li>
+	<li>The virtio-blk and ahci-hd devices are now able to execute
+	  multiple I/O requests in parallel.  This can significantly
+	  boost virtual disk throughput.</li>
+	<li>The ahci-hd device emulation advertises TRIM to the guest
+	  if the backend device supports it (e.g., ZVOL).</li>
+	<li>The virtio-blk and ahci-hd devices now advertise the proper
+	  logical and physical block size of the backend device or file.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Improve documentation.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>bhyveucl is a script for starting bhyve instances based on a
+	  libUCL config file.  More information is at
+	  <a
+	    href="https://github.com/allanjude/bhyveucl">https://github.com/allanjude/bhyveucl</a></p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add support for virtio-scsi.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Flexible networking backends: wanproxy, vhost-net.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Move to a single process model, instead of bhyveload
+	  and bhyve.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Support running bhyve as non-root.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add filters for popular VM file formats (VMDK, VHD,
+	  QCOW2).</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Implement an abstraction layer for video (no X11 or SDL in
+	  the base system).</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Suspend/resume support.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Live Migration.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Nested VT-x support (bhyve in bhyve).</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC).</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
