svn commit: r47605 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sat Oct 17 19:19:44 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Sat Oct 17 19:19:43 2015
New Revision: 47605
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47605

Log:
  Add bhyve report from grehan

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Sat Oct 17 18:50:52 2015	(r47604)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Sat Oct 17 19:19:43 2015	(r47605)
@@ -2164,4 +2164,139 @@
     </help>
   </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>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>Michael</given>
+	  <common>Dexter</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>editor at callfortesting.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://www.bhyve.org">bhyve FAQ and talks</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2015/NE2000EmulationForBhyve">NE2000
+	device emulation GSoC project</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2015/PortingBhyveToArm">Porting
+	bhyve to ARM GSoC project</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2015/ptnetmapOnBhyve">ptnetmap
+	support in bhyve GSoC project</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p><tt>bhyve</tt> is a hypervisor that runs on the &os;/amd64
+	platform.  At present, it runs &os; (8.x or later), Linux
+	i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, NetBSD/amd64, Illumos, and Windows
+	Vista/7/8/10/2008r2/2012r2/2016 x64 guests.  Current development
+	is focused on enabling additional guest operating systems and
+	implementing features found in other hypervisors.</p>
+
+      <p>A combined <tt>bhyve</tt> and ZFS BoF was held during vBSDCon 2015,
+	hosted by Michael Dexter and Allan Jude.  Questions asked about
+	<tt>bhyve</tt> were live migration and suspend/resume support, and
+	configurations using ZFS.</p>
+
+      <p>Three bhyve-related project were selected for GSoC 2015:
+	NE2000 device emulation, porting <tt>bhyve</tt> to ARM, and
+	ptnetmap support.</p>
+
+      <p>The major enhancement for <tt>bhyve</tt> this quarter was
+	support for an external firmware, along with a port of the Intel
+	edk2 UEFI firmware.  This allows bhyve to run Windows in headless
+	mode, and also Illumos.</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li> <url href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?561187FB.8040506"> Windows support</url> </li>
+	<li> <url href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?56118B2B.2040101"> Illumos support</url> </li>
+      </ul>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Improve the documentation.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p><tt>bhyveucl</tt> is a work-in-progress script for
+	  starting <tt>bhyve</tt> instances based on a libUCL config file.
+	  More information 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>Support running <tt>bhyve</tt> 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
+	base system).</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Suspend/resume support.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Live Migration.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Nested VT-x support (<tt>bhyve</tt> in <tt>bhyve</tt>).</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC).</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
