visoreXtensible Versatile hypervISOR

Xvisor v0.2.5 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 21:26:54 +0530  |  Posted by: Anup Patel

In this release, we have new features, drivers, and emulators.

New Features:

• Hub or repeater policy based netswitch
• Generic pluggable loadbalancer
• PCI emulation framework
• Linux-compatible red-black tree library
• Generic buddy allocator library
• Linux-compatible radix tree library
• Linux-compatible GPIO driver framework
• Linux-compatible Pinmux driver framework
• Linux-compatible device resource managment APIs
• Sampling interrupt processing time in scheduler
• Sampling idle time in scheduler
• Extended Host IRQ APIs

New Commands:

• vcpu orphan_list and vcpu normal_list sub-commands
• vfs fdt_load and vfs run sub-commands

New Drivers:

• Sun4i EMAC driver
• Sunxi pinctrl driver

New Emulators:

• PCI shared memory device emulator
• i440fx PCI host controller emulator
• MC146818 RTC emulator
• i8259 PIC emulator
• Legacy Intel 8254 PIT emulator
• Intel LAPIC emulator

ARM Ports:

• Full device-tree based generic board support
• PSCI based SMP operations for host
• Defterm early prints for early debugging
• Added PSCI v0.2 emulation all guests

ARM 32-bit Port:

• Support booting on VExpress-A15 fast model
• Added i.MX6 Saberlite support
• Add separate VTLB zone for low exception vectors
• Faster map/unmap pages for VTLB emulation
• Avoid redundant TLB invalidates while managing VTLB

ARM 32-bit with VE Port:

• Added Sun7i Cubieboard2 support
• Low-level context switching for normal VCPUs

ARM 64-bit Port:

• Low-level context switching for normal VCPUs
• Trap data cache operation by set/way
• Optimized memcpy and memset implementation

x86_64 Port:

• Able to boot coreboot BIOS as guest with FILO payload