Peter Grehan

The tentative plan for bhyve is to have a unix-domain socket server that sits at the back-end of the XHCI emulation. USB targets would then connect to this, using something...

Windows 2008r2 reported to boot under hyperkit: https://twitter.com/jdmulloy/status/733196551015829506

That's headless with RDP, though bhyve has work in the pipe for native graphics so that may trickle through to xhyve at some point https://twitter.com/nahannisys/status/659517013027454978

For available permissively-licensed code, bhyve has an e1000 (aka 82545em) emulation, an XHCI USB controller emulation plus tablet device, and there is an out-of-tree IDE driver from a GSoC project.

bhyve does support pinning vCPUs. There's no NUMA table setup for this. The socket vs core stuff can be set via global tunables, and is mainly useful for desktop Windows...

It could, but I suspect it's a fair amount of work. I had an preliminary attempt at pulling in just the XFS changes, but the surrounding 2.02 changes were big...

I'm not working on it. As above, it's a big job. For Centos, using UEFI as the bootloader works, and perhaps selecting EXT4 for the filesystem (if that's possible; I've...