devmem is used to represent MMIO devices like the boot ROM or a VESA framebuffer
where doing a trap-and-emulate for every access is impractical. devmem is a
hybrid of system memory (sysmem) and emulated device models.
devmem is mapped in the guest address space via nested page tables similar
to sysmem. However the address range where devmem is mapped may be changed
by the guest at runtime (e.g. by reprogramming a PCI BAR). Also devmem is
usually mapped RO or RW as compared to RWX mappings for sysmem.
Each devmem segment is named (e.g. "bootrom") and this name is used to
create a device node for the devmem segment (e.g. /dev/vmm/testvm.bootrom).
The device node supports mmap(2) and this decouples the host mapping of
devmem from its mapping in the guest address space (which can change).
Reviewed by: tychon
Discussed with: grehan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2762
MFC after: 4 weeks
The default behavior is to infer the logical and physical sector sizes from
the block device backend. However older versions of Windows only work with
specific logical/physical combinations:
- Vista and Windows 7: 512/512
- Windows 7 SP1: 512/512 or 512/4096
For this reason allow the sector size to be specified using the following
block device option: sectorsize=logical[/physical]
Reported by: Leon Dang (ldang@nahannisys.com)
Reviewed by: grehan
MFC after: 2 weeks
The default remains localtime for compatibility with the original device model
in bhyve(8). This is required for OpenBSD guests which assume that the RTC
keeps UTC time.
Reviewed by: grehan
Pointed out by: Jason Tubnor (jason@tubnor.net)
MFC after: 2 weeks
similar to -g.)
- Document -U to set the SMBIOS UUID.
- Add missing options to the usage output and to the manpage Synopsis.
- Don't claim that bvmdebug is amd64-only (it is also a device, not an
option).
This has not added a lot of value when debugging bhyve issues while greatly
increasing the time and space required to store the core file.
Passing the "-C" option to bhyve(8) will change the default and dump guest
memory in the core dump.
Requested by: grehan
Reviewed by: grehan
a 'hostcpu'. The new format of the argument string is "vcpu:hostcpu".
This allows pinning a subset of the vcpus if desired.
It also allows pinning a vcpu to more than a single 'hostcpu'.
Submitted by: novel (initial version)
because there isn't a standard way to relay this information to the guest OS.
Add a command line option "-Y" to bhyve(8) to inhibit MPtable generation.
If the virtual machine is using PCI devices on buses other than 0 then it can
still use ACPI tables to convey this information to the guest.
Discussed with: grehan@
Call through to /dev/random synchronously to fill
virtio buffers with RNG data.
Tested with FreeBSD-CURRENT and Ubuntu guests.
Submitted by: Leon Dang
Discussed with: markm
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: Nahanni Systems
