On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 6:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to install OSv in real hardware? > If it is not supported now, do you have any plan for it? >
I think the biggest missing part is that OSv does not currently support any "real" network card. In the past, there was an effort to fill that need with a driver for an Intel 10 Gb Ethernet driver - see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/osv-dev/OJVabshOjp0/1RjKGx2KPNcJ - but I don't know what ever become of this effort. Supporting real network cards has a benefit even in OSv's traditional niche, virtual machines, if we want to support PCI device assignment, which can be noticeably more efficient than paravirtual network cards. I am not not aware of anybody working on this right now, but I would be happy if someone does. However, I do think we should keep OSv's focus as a virtualization solution - I don't think OSv should ever support desktop machines, with need to support multiple processes and dozens of different choices for hardware. If you came to your question from the angle of device assignment or from "physical" cloud, then I'm all for it. > Sincerely, > Arafath M > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OSv Development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSv Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
