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Bryan Cantrill also ported KVM to Illumos. At Joyent they had plenty of experience with KVM. See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o

As far as I know, Bryan didn't personally work on the porting of bhyve (this might be wrong).

So if anything, that would point to KVM as the 'familiar' thing given how many former Joyant people were there.

KVM got more and more integrated with the rest of Linux as more virtualization features became general system features (e.g. posted interrupts). Also Google and Amazon are working more upstream and the pace of development increased a lot.

Keeping a KVM port up to date is a huge effort compared to bhyve, and they probably had learnt that in the years between the porting of KVM and the founding of Oxide.

Where is Max Bruning these days?

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