BSDCan2019 - 1.8
BSDCan 2019
The Technical BSD Conference
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Kamil Rytarowski |
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| Day | Talks #2 - 18 May - 2019-05-18 |
| Room | DMS 1140 |
| Start time | 11:15 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 1054 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Hacking |
| Language used for presentation | English |
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qemu with hardware acceleration on NetBSD
Intel HAXM as a VTx backend on NetBSD
HAXM is an open source qemu hardware acceleration engine for Intel CPUs, which has been ported to the NetBSD kernel.
HAXM (Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager) has been developed as a hardware-assisted virtualization engine (hypervisor) that uses Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VTx) to speed up Android development in the Microsoft Windows and Darwin environment.
In 2017 this virtualization technology has been open-sourced and subsequently improved, acquiring support for Linux as a host and all major Operating Systems (NetBSD, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, FREEDOS, Haiku, Minix3, Darwin etc) in at least a single variation as guest.
This talk discusses the technology and the process of getting a usable version on NetBSD as a host, which is probably the first functional Type 2 hypervisor to work (and today not the only one) on NetBSD.
I will discuss the HAXM in the context of adding NetBSD support, both as host and guest.