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The Haiku project has published a newsletter for the month of June which highlights progress its developers are making. One of the key changes this past month was an effort to get the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor running on Haiku. "The thing that should be the biggest news item this month is that the GSoC 2024 work to port “NVMM”, the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor (which runs on more than just NetBSD, despite the name), providing hardware-accelerated virtualization support for QEMU, was finally merged. Unfortunately it still doesn't fully work, so it's still disabled by default: hence, it's only a minor news item, unfortunately.The code is now at least fully integrated with the Haiku tree, and all necessary kernel changes (including a number of bugfixes and the implementation of a handful of minor new features) has been completed, so the code shouldn't “bitrot” any further, and it's much easier to build, test, and work on it than it was when it was on a slowly-rotting branch. Additionally, I (waddlesplash) implemented support for AMD hosts (the GSoC project only implemented enough for Intel hosts), cleaned up a lot of the code, and implemented a number of performance improvements while at it. " This and other changes are covered in the Haiku newsletter. |