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<sect2 xml:id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included
with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT)
support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond
(e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para>
<para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the
name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but
since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen).
This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers
for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;),
memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI.
Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">A paravirtualized driver named "hyperv" which
which supports Microsoft Hyper-V has been imported and made
part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, this driver is not part of
GENERIC, so <literal>hyperv_load="YES"</literal> must be added to
<filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load the driver.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
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scheduler is now the default process scheduler
in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
<title>Virtualization support</title>
<para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included
with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT)
support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond
(e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para>
<para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the
name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but
since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen).
This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers
for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;),
memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI.
Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">A paravirtualized driver named "hyperv" which
which supports Microsoft Hyper-V has been imported and made
part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, this driver is not part of
GENERIC, so <literal>hyperv_load="YES"</literal> must be added to
<filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load the driver.</para>
<para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added.
&man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
OpenBSD.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has
been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para>
<para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added.
&man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
OpenBSD.</para>
<para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support
40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para>