Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] Implements the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor accelerator

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 5/8/21 4:27 PM, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> ping?

Paolo sent a pull request:
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg804321.html
And you and Kamil have been Cc'ed:
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg804320.html

> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:16:27PM +0000, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
>> The NetBSD team has implemented its new hypervisor called NVMM. It has been
>> included since NetBSD 9.0 and has been in use now for quite some time. NVMM
>> adds user-mode capabilities to create and manage virtual machines, configure
>> memory mappings for guest machines, and create and control execution of
>> virtual processors.
>>
>> With this new API we are now able to bring our hypervisor to the QEMU
>> community! The following patches implement the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor
>> accelerator (NVMM) for QEMU on NetBSD 9.0 and newer hosts.
>>
>> When compiling QEMU for x86_64 it will autodetect nvmm and will compile the
>> accelerator for use if found. At runtime using the '-accel nvmm' should see a
>> significant performance improvement over emulation, much like when using 
>> 'hax'
>> on NetBSD.
>>
>> The documentation for this new API is visible at https://man.netbsd.org under
>> the libnvmm(3) and nvmm(4) pages.
>>
>> NVMM was designed and implemented by Maxime Villard <max@m00nbsd.net>
>>
>> Thank you for your feedback.
>>
>> Refrences:
>> https://m00nbsd.net/4e0798b7f2620c965d0dd9d6a7a2f296.html