Re: bhyve and AMD

2013-09-11 Thread Dee Nixon
On Wed, September 11, 2013 5:20 pm, Anish wrote: > Yes, nRIP is required and it will be hard to find AMD processor with > SVM support that doesn't have it. We used Phenom II for bhyve port > on AMD which is 2+ years old and has RVI and nRIP support. I'm sorry to have to ask this, but what is nRIP?

Re: very rough draft of handbook entry for bhyve

2013-09-18 Thread Dee Nixon
An updated version of a draft of proposed additions to the FreeBSD handbook, posted here earlier by Aryeh Friedman, is here: http://petitecloud.org/handbook.jsp The draft is still very incomplete but has been reorganized to show exactly where various parts of it should go in the relevant section

CFT: PetiteCloud 0.1.3

2013-09-26 Thread Dee Nixon
Version 0.1.3 of PetiteCloud (a front end for bhyve) has been released. We would very much appreciate feedback from anyone inclined to test it. PetiteCloud can be downloaded (as a FreeBSD port) from http://petitecloud.org/port-0.1.3.tar.gz . New Features: * All startup initializations (

Re: CFT: petitecloud 0.1.7

2013-10-01 Thread Dee Nixon
Aryeh forgot to include the URL where you can download it: http://10.0.10.3/petitecloudorg/download.jsp On Tue, October 1, 2013 9:04 pm, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Aryeh Friedman > Date: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:57 PM > Subject: CFT: petitecloud 0.1.7 >

RFC: Changes to handbook on virtualization

2013-10-10 Thread Dee Nixon
A few weeks ago we volunteered to add some new material, primarily about bhyve, to the section on virtualiation in the FreeBSD handbook. You can see our nearly-final draft (pending any comments from the list, and pending the repair of VirtualBox so it can work with FreeBSD 10) at: http://www

Re: RFC: Changes to handbook on virtualization

2013-10-11 Thread Dee Nixon
ect: Re: RFC: Changes to handbook on virtualization > To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org > > > On 10/11/13 5:59 AM, Dee Nixon wrote: > >> A few weeks ago we volunteered to add some new material, primarily >> about bhyve, to the section on virtualiation in the FreeBSD >

RFD: Remote console access to bhyve guest instances?

2013-11-14 Thread Dee Nixon
Problem scenario: A cloud provider (defined as someone who allows multiple end-users to create and manage their own guest instances without direct access to the host's operating system) needs to provide console access to each instance in a secure manner. If a cloud provider were to use bhyve in

CFT: PetiteCloud's support for Linux running under bhyve

2014-01-30 Thread Dee Nixon
First of all what's new in 0.2.3: * Full support for Linux as a guest on the “bhyve-linux” hypervisor * Fixed all build system bugs we know of * PetiteCloud.org has made a link to -virtualization@ as our preferred support channel * The screen shots on PetiteCloud.org have been added to, reorgan