On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Ivan Voras <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/03/2011 12:21, Zhihao Yuan wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Ivan Voras<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 24/03/2011 10:00, Jing Huang wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Everyone, >>>> >>>> I am a student of Peking University in China. I am interest >>>> in the FreeBSD project of "Timecounter Performance Improvements". >>>> >>>> I am familiar with Linux kernel and virtualization systems, >>>> like KVM and Xen. I have maintained the Linux Server for my College >>>> for last whole year. Recently, I learned a lot about KVM and assigned >>>> VMs to students who need them. I also have experience of install and >>>> config FreeBSD system. >>> >>> Offtopic for your specific requests, but if you or these students would >>> like >>> to finish porting KVM to FreeBSD, that would also be a great GSoC >>> project! >>> >> >> Linux KVM was ported to FreeBSD before: >> http://retis.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/ >> >> But their code are not clean, and the implementation only support >> FreeBSD 6/7 (due to the changes to the USB stack). Since there may be >> another big project to clean up their code, FreeBSD dropped that GSoC >> result. > > Yes, that is why I suggested finishing the port :) There is enough work in > finishing the KVM port that it can be a new GSoC project. > > (also, finishing FUSE...) > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" >
Well, it depends on the decision of core team. AFAIC, to make the KVM to be committed is very hard, especially for a GSoC project. But... I think the thread is not talking about the KVM itself... FUSE works. It's in the ports, as well as many file systems. -- Zhihao Yuan The best way to predict the future is to invent it. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
