==== Agenda ====
  * Intro to bhyve office hours
  * Notable commits in the past month
  * Demos
    * bhyve vs bare metal performance
    * bhyve on ARM
  * Q & A

==== Video ====

  * %%YouTube%% video of TBP|bhyve Office Hours Meeting

==== Meeting Notes ====

  * Notable commits in the past month
    * John Baldwin has committed improved configuration infrastructure.
    * New committer Ka Ho Ng has joined the project and contributed to:
      * PCI 64-bit BAR pass through
      * %%VirtIO%% v1.0 device emulation
      * Fixing IOMMU support in AMD which will fix a lot of issues in the high-end AMD CPU lineup such as Threadripper and EPYC 
    * New committer Rob Wing has joined the project and contributed to:
      * Snapshot/restore code
  * Demos
    * bhyve vs Bare Metal performance comparison
      * %%OpenSSL%% speed test (sha256, sha512)
      * ffmpeg file transcoding
    * bhyve on ARM
      * ARM simulator(v8) on Ubuntu for comparison
      * ARM/bhyve on [[http://espressobin.net/|Espressobin]]
        * Overall, ARM/bhyve on native ARM hardware is 20 times (x20) more performant than the ARM simulator. 
        * [[http://espressobin.net/|This is the hardware]] that Peter used in the demonstration but any ARM hardware that supports the **//XYZ//** CPU feature can be used.

  * Q & A
    * What is the reason for not being able to run bhyve as a non-root user?
      * Take notes from recording.
    * Comparisons against memory bandwidth
      * Problematic with all virtualisation. Double paging is effectively occuring in memory causing this to bottleneck.
    * Usability for general users, how can we use bhyve easily?
      * vm-bhyve is the common way to stand up bhyve guests. A demonstration will be performed on the next bhyve office hours call on how to use vm-bhyve so all users can leverage the virtualisation platform.