Thanks for the reply. I asked the question because, I thought, there might be good performance gain, if OSv could be installed in a bare metal server (dedicated server) without virtualization.
I would like to get into OSv development, but I am a newbie to OS development. (I have experience in Visual C++). I think, under guidance I can pick up the things. Where should I start? Sincerely, Arafath M On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
