hypervisor

The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

March 3, 2020

Safety certification is one of the essential requirements for software to be used in highly regulated industries. The Xen Project, a secure and stable hypervisor that is used in many different markets …

ACRN/KATA: A Safety Container Solution for Software-defined Cockpit

March 2, 2020

Nowadays, with the widespread use of intelligence and networking in automobiles, vehicles evolve into a large IoT platform. Software-defined cockpit trends to combine with entertainment system. Worklo …

AGL-based Container Technology Applied to Mass Production of RSE (Rear Seat Entertainment) - Guktae Kim &

March 2, 2020

Rear Seat Entertainment (RSE) has been widely used on the Android platform to take advantage of a variety of games and media programs. DrimAES Inc. wanted to find a way to utilize the pre-built Androi …

Consolidate Real time and HMI with ACRN Hypervisor

February 29, 2020

With the increasing momentum of embedded devices getting smarter and always connected, it is prevalent to see that more and more industrial automation manufacturers (Siemens, Beckhoff, Inovance, etc) …

Secure Container in IoT Segment: Extend KATA to ACRN IoT Hypervisor

February 28, 2020

Todays connected devices are increasingly expected to support a range of hardware resources, operating systems, and software tools/applications. Workload consolidation, resource isolation and safety …

Static Partitioning Made Simple

February 19, 2020

Static partitioning is used to split an embedded system into multiple domains, each of them having access only to a portion of the hardware on the SoC. It is key to enable mixed-criticality scenarios, …

The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

February 14, 2020

Xvisor: Embedded Hypervisor for RISC-V

January 24, 2020

Xvisor is an open-source type-1 monolithic hypervisor. It is primarily designed and developed for embedded systems. The Xvisor project has been around for more than 8 years now and it is has a mature/ …

Advanced Testing using UserModeLinux

January 17, 2020

UserModeLinux (UML) is the dinosaur of Linux virtualization, it was one of first methods to run multiple Linux systems on the same host.Over the last years KVM mostly superseded UML, but UML can be st …

Core-Scheduling for Virtualization: Where are We? (If We Want It!)

January 14, 2020

Clever scheduling of virtual CPUs on Symmetric MultiThreaded systems for, among other things, making highly impractical side-channel attacks even more unpractical, is no new idea. Unfortunately, via e …

DigitalOcean's Use of OSS in a Fully Routed Datacenter

January 12, 2020

DO is undergoing a major overhaul of its droplet network infrastructure to carry traffic over a layer 3 (routed) network. This allows a more scalable, versatile, and fault tolerant cloud network with …

VirtIO without the Virt - Towards Implementations in Hardware - Michael Tsirkin, Red Hat

January 11, 2020

VirtIO was designed to standardize hypervisor interfaces for virtual machines - but we are beginning to see the emergence of Virtio hardware. This talk will answer the questions: why does this make se …

KVMstat and Beyond - Past, Present and Future of Performance Monitoring - Christian Borntrger, IBM

January 9, 2020

When it comes to performance monitoring KVM provides sophisticated tools to deep dive into specific aspects. For example, kvm_stat or perf allows analyzing the exits from a guest mode. On the other ha …

Storage Performance Review for Hypervisors

January 9, 2020

With the advent of fast storage technologies like NVMe and 3DXP, hypervisors are facing unprecedented challenges. The added software overhead involved in access validations, general data movement and …

Developing and Deploying Microservices with Toro Unikernel

January 8, 2020

In a cloud-based architecture, microservices are deployed on VMs which are guests that run a General Purpose OS and the microservice runs as a user application. In this context, Toro is a dedicated un …

Deep Dive: Kubernetes (VMware) SIG

October 29, 2019

Deep Dive into the Cluster API Provider for vSphere The Cluster API is a Kubernetes project to bring declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster creation, configuration, and management. This is desi …

Tailor-Made Security: Building a Kubernetes Specific Hypervisor

October 25, 2019

One of the many benefits of the recently introduced RuntimeClass feature is the ability for operators to run hypervisor isolated container workloads in order to build secure multi-tenant deployments.. …

From Secure Container to Secure Service

October 9, 2019

In KubeCon NA 2018, we did a quantitive comparison between Kata containers and gVisor, in which we showed the reasonable CPU/Networking performance for Kata, the performance penalty on filesystem stor …

CodeReady Containers; Simplified Deployment and Cluster API for Desktops

October 5, 2019

With the introduction of OpenShift 4.0, a new method of installation targeting cloud providers was introduced. For CodeReady Containers we provide a simplified method to enable this installation for d …

Consolidate Real Time and HMI with ACRN Hypervisor

September 28, 2019