bhyve: "Failed to emulate instruction 0x4c (...)" using "Core i5 6200U"...

2016-08-03 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi, booting Windows 10 DVD ISO in a bhyve VM generates an abort trap: == Failed to emulate instruction [0x4c 0x8b 0x3c 0xc8 0x41 0x39 0x7f 0x08 0x76 0x5f 0x49 0x8b 0x0f 0x44 0x8b] at 0x10009bc1 Abort trap (core dumped)

bhyve: UEFI - preserve NVRAM between host system reboots?

2016-07-04 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi, is it somehow possible to preserve the contents of the NVRAMs of the VMs bet- ween host system reboots? "bhyvectl --destroy" kills them, too... Thanks in advance and regards, Nils ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Bheve: Slow linux syscalls on AMD

2014-06-10 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi Peter, Peter Grehan wrote: Still seeing that a 2 CPU VM is using about 100% of 1 cpu when idleing, but that is another minor challenge. Fixed in r267305 Confirmed. Running a bhyved 3-vCPU-CentOS 6.5, the host CPU load for vcpu 0 is around 12% now. The remaining vcpus are all near or at

Re: Bheve: Slow linux syscalls on AMD

2014-06-10 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi Peter, Peter Grehan wrote: Confirmed. Running a bhyved 3-vCPU-CentOS 6.5, the host CPU load for vcpu 0 is around 12% now. Doh, that's not good - haven't given Centos 6.5 a try; will now to investigate this. CentOS is a bit bitchy about booting from harddisk. You'll have to provide a

Re: Bheve: Slow linux syscalls on AMD

2014-05-30 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi Willem, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: 1) I'm looking for a better basic syscall in Linux that is not cache, faked or otherwise tweaked to nog give what I want. Would really be nice if there was a NOP_syscall, just go in and out of kernel space. Hmm, I've tried your test with getuid.

Re: bhyve: svm (amd-v) update

2014-05-21 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi Willem, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: I'd be interested in the vlapic to if that helps the speed. But you can help me a lot if you give me the SVN commands to do what you described above. These were my steps: 0) mv /usr/src /usr/src.bak 1) svnlite co

Re: bhyve: svm (amd-v) update

2014-05-16 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi Anish, Anish wrote: If patches looks good to you, we can submit it. I have been testing it on Phenom box which lacks some of newer SVM features. Your patch applied cleanly to the working copy of the bhyve_svm-project. I was then able to merge with HEAD (using theirs-full on one file) and