Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

[didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com>]

Le 23/03/2021 à 10:54, Victor Sudakov a écrit :

> 1. Does qemu use hardware virtualization (VT-d, whatever is in the CPU)?

Yes, I think that basically, KVM requires it (and that Qemu does not)

> 2. Can qemu present the NIC and drives to the guest paravirtualized?
> FreeBSD understands VirtIO Block Adapter, VirtIO Ethernet and VMware
> VMXNET3 and some other paravirtualized devices.

there is an introduction to Virtio in kvm:
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio

and you can search for virtio on the qemu-system manpage:
https://helpmanual.io/man1/qemu-system/