Re: bhyve and legacy

2014-01-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:48:20 pm Neel Natu wrote: Hi John, On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:15 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: Is there any interest in supporting more legacy setups via bhyve? In particular, I'd like to take a whack at improving the PCI INTx support

bhyve and legacy

2014-01-22 Thread John Baldwin
Is there any interest in supporting more legacy setups via bhyve? In particular, I'd like to take a whack at improving the PCI INTx support, but that can involve several things such as possibly implementing 8259A support and a PCI interrupt router vs always assuming that we have APICs. If we

Re: bhyve and legacy

2014-01-22 Thread Tycho Nightingale
interest in supporting more legacy setups via bhyve? In particular, I'd like to take a whack at improving the PCI INTx support, but that can involve several things such as possibly implementing 8259A support and a PCI interrupt router vs always assuming that we have APICs. If we do want

Re: bhyve and legacy

2014-01-22 Thread Neel Natu
Hi John, On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:15 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: Is there any interest in supporting more legacy setups via bhyve? In particular, I'd like to take a whack at improving the PCI INTx support, but that can involve several things such as possibly implementing 8259A

Re: bhyve and legacy

2014-01-22 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Tycho Nightingale tycho.nighting...@pluribusnetworks.com wrote: Now with respect to bhyveload, while it certainly does have some FreeBSD-specific uses, it is a bit of a barrier to supporting non-FreeBSD guests and furthermore supporting them well e.g. reboot