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Ensuring Bootable Arm VM Images
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
A while back, during Linaro Connect 2013, Riku Voipio (Linaro) asked a simple but important question: “When you guys are done building hypervisors that work on Arm, how do we...
VM System Specification V2 for Arm Processors
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Christoffer Dall, Virtualization Tech Lead Version 2.0, Last Revised: April 4th, 2016 Download PDF The goal of this specification is to provide a set of guidelines for both guest Operating System (OS) images and hypervisor implementations...
On the Performance of Arm Virtualization
Thursday, June 16, 2016
While PCIe passthrough (the process of assigning a PCIe device to a VM, also known as device assignment) is supported through a mostly architecture-agnostic subsystem called VFIO, there are intricate details of an Arm-based system that require special support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSIs) in the context of VFIO passthrough on Arm server systems.
VM System Specification for Arm Processors
Monday, September 1, 2014
VM System Specification for Arm Processors Christoffer Dall, Virtualization Tech Lead Version 1.0, Last Revised: August 4th, 2014 Download PDF Clear Text Version The goal of this spec is to...