visoreXtensible Versatile hypervISOR

Xvisor v0.2.10 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:54:04 +0530  |  Posted by: Anup Patel

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

New Features:

• Multiple mappings for a guest region
• SPI virtualization framework
• VirtIO host driver framework
• Backlog in block device request queue
• Customizable default affinity for hypervisor threads
• Colored RAM/ROM regions for guest
• Shared memory framework
• Shared RAM/ROM regions for guest
• Virtual messaging framework (EXPERIMENTAL)

New Commands:

• guest region_list sub-command
• shmem command
• vmsg command

New Drivers:

• VirtIO host MMIO transport driver
• ARM SMMUv2 driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
• VirtIO host block driver
• Generic DT-based cache color driver
• SMSC95xx usb network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)

New Emulators:

• GPIO based power emulator
• GPIO forward slave emulator
• PL022 SPI host controller emulator
• VirtIO RPMSG emulator (EXPERIMENTAL)

New Boards:

• Added Renesas R-Car H2 Lager board support

ARM Ports:

• GICv3 support in VGIC emulator

ARM32 Port:

• No change

ARM32ve Port:

• No change

ARM64 Port:

• No change

x86 Port:

• No change