visoreXtensible Versatile hypervISOR

Xvisor v0.2.1 Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:12:08 +0530  |  Posted by: Anup Patel

In this release, we have new features, drivers and board supports.

New Features/Updates:

• Notifier chain support
• Light-weight virtual filesystem library
• CPIO read-only filesystem support
• Ext2 filesystem support
• FAT filesystem support (EXPERIMENTAL)
• lwIP as optional network stack
• Removed UIP as optional network stack
• Telnet daemon for managment terminal over network
• Vstelnet library for telnet access to virtual serial ports

New Drivers:

• Samsung Exynos UART driver
• Samsung Exynos RTC driver

ARM 32-bit Port:

• Added support for Sun4i SOC
• Added support for Exynos4 SOC
• Improved low-level exception handling for SMP support
• Added emulation for implemenation specific CP15 registers
• Added support for VExpress-A15 guest on hosts having hardware virtualization support

ARM 32-bit with VE Port:

• Added support for generic timers
• Create 2MB Stage2 mapping for RAM regions whenever possible
• Added emulation for implemenation specific CP15 registers

x86_64 Port:

• Stable HPET support
• Initial context switching for Orphan VCPUs (or Threads)
• Able to get to Xvisor prompt on QEMU and Real HW but still lacks keyboard support so can't interact