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cakes
Even though it looks like (and probably is, I can't easily try this right now) a lot of work, it's cool to see this running on bhyve
itgoon
Poor guest support is why I ended up switching from FreeBSD to Linux for my test server.

I'd like to go back, but I can't justify a single box for a single instance - I run lots of VMs, using all operating systems.

So I'm glad to see this, and I hope they continue the improvements.

jbssm
I know very little about FreeBDS and bhyve. But, is it possible to pass direct access to the GPU to the virtual machine this way?

That way it would be possible to play the games in Windows or to use CUDA in a Linux guest inside bhyve.

DiabloD3
bhyve would have to support what is called "PCI-E passthrough", and support such functionality via IOMMUs to allow device-initiated DMAs to work (which GPUs, >=10gbit NICs, storage controllers, etc, all require).

KVM, Xen, and ESXI all support this, so if bhyve doesn't support it yet, it most likely will in the future.

qbrass
It should work for Intel's VT-d, but you're out of luck if you use AMD.
grubles
What? AMD has support for IOMMU.
sveiss
The implementation is different to Intel's. AFAIK, bhyve has code to support one but not the other.
jlgaddis
I don't have an answer to your question but note that bhyve is still very new, it is still very experimental, and the feature list is still pretty short. That said, work is ongoing and progressing pretty quickly.
techdragon
You won't have much help from Nvidia, they like to disable this sort of thing when they can, artificial limits in their binary drivers etc.