visoreXtensible Versatile hypervISOR

Xvisor v0.2.8 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 22:40:51 +0530  |  Posted by: Anup Patel

In this release, we have lot of fixes, improvements, drivers and emulators.

New Features:

• Print banner from text file using boot command
• Display logo and images on framebuffer from file only
• Support for savedefconfig in top-level makefile
• Replaced vstelnet library with vsdaemon library which has support for pluggable transport module
• vsdaemon transport for character device
• vsdaemon transport for telnet connection
• vsdaemon transport for managment terminal
• Added lite version of vmm_spin_lock()/vmm_spin_unlock() and similar APIs
• White-box testing library with lots of test cases
• New interface/APIs for registering simple emulators
• Added vmm_manager APIs to manage per-VCPU resources
• Added emulator debugging support in device emulation framework
• Added ANSI colors for logging in vmm_stdio
• Initial support for multiqueue in VirtIO Network (EXPERIMENTAL)

New Commands:

• vsdaemon command to replace old vstelnet command
• wboxtest command to invoke white-box testing library
• guest region sub-command to retrieve region info
• vdisk info sub-command to print vdisk details

New Drivers:

• BCM2835 i2c driver ported from Linux

New Emulators:

• SP805 watchdog emulator
• i.MX serial emulator
• Simplified i.MX6 Anatop emulator
• Simplified i.MX6 CCM emulator
• Simplified i.MX GPT emulator

ARM Ports:

• Added emulated SP805 device for all ARM guest types
• Added i.MX6 SMP boot method
• Added common build script to automate Xvisor, guest Linux, and guest root filesystem compilation
• Emulate i.MX6 HW instead of VExpress-A9 for saberlite-a9 guest type

ARM32ve Port:

• CP14 instruction virtualization support

ARM64 Port:

• No change

x86 Port:

• No change