When is work on IOMMU support for AMD processors to enable PCI passthru expected to be completed?
On 8 April 2015 at 09:35, Stacey Pellegrino <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the response Peter. Please email me and/or put me on a mailing > list when AMD PCI passthru is supported as this would be much needed for my > existing hardware investment and currently unusable graphics card on > FreeBSD. Thanks. > > On 7 April 2015 at 22:58, Peter Grehan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Stacey, >> >> Can someone provide me (or forward onto the relevant person/team) an >>> update >>> on the Bhyve development? I have been trying ever so hard to find out >>> about >>> the latest AMD Catalyst graphics drivers for FreeBSD (rumours on the >>> internet that they exist and/or are in development) so that I can run >>> multiple displays from my Sapphire Radeon R9 290X. It could still be >>> possible to use this graphics card with FreeBSD 10.1 by means of PCI pass >>> through with Bhyve, although (as I found out with extensive testing with >>> Xen) it is Intel processor favored and supported. When is AMD64 support >>> coming up to the level of development that Intel processors are getting? >>> >> >> AMD processor support in bhyve is almost at the level of Intel processor >> support, with one notable gap being the lack of IOMMU support which is >> required for PCI passthru. >> >> When will Windows and Mac OS X Snow Leopard onwards be supported? >>> >> >> Windows is (slowly) being worked on. Nothing is happening with OSX to my >> knowledge. >> >> Are installations headless and require something like VNC? >>> >> >> Installations are currently via the guest's serial console. >> >> later, >> >> Peter. >> >> > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
