On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Joe Holden <li...@rewt.org.uk> wrote: > On 27/11/2012 19:25, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: >> On 27 November 2012 22:12, Joe Holden <li...@rewt.org.uk> wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I can't see virtio in releng/9.1, is there any particular reason why it >>> isn't going to be included given that it works reasonable well (and is >>> optional anyway, so not likely to be detrimental)? >> >> virtio appeared in stable/9 a bit after 9.1 cut off, >> and it is too late now regardless of virtio shape. >> Anyway you can installed it from ports. >> > Ah I see, doesn't really help all the people who can't install it in KVM and > such though unfortunately, seems silly making them wait even > longer and having to use Linux :)
FWIW, I installed FreeBSD 9-STABLE (pre-virtio in src) in KVM, initially using the emulated devices and then, post-install, installed the emulators/virtio-kmod port and switched over to vtbd/vtnet devices without problem. When virtio appeared in src, I ditched the virtio-kmod port, again, without issues. I found making the transition to virtio devices no harder than the ad -> ada device transition. Cheers, Paul. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
