Xvisor Reviews

Xvisor Description

Xvisor®, an open-source type-1 hypervisor that aims to provide a lightweight, portable, flexible, monolithic and lightweight virtualization solution, is available. It offers a high-performance and low-memory footprint virtualization solution for ARMv5, ARMv6, ARMv7a and ARMv7a–ve, ARMv8a and ARMv8a CPU architectures. It is the only hypervisor that supports ARM CPUs and does not require ARM virtualization extensions, which is a significant difference to other ARM hypervisors. It is the world's first Type-1 RISC–V hypervisor in RISC–V. The Xvisor source code can be easily ported to any general-purpose 32-bit and 64-bit architectures provided they have a paged Memory Management Unit (PMMU) or a port of GNU C compiler. Xvisor supports Full virtualization and supports a wide variety of unmodified Guest operating system. Paravirtualization can be enabled in Xvisor, but it is not required. It will be supported in an architecture-independent manner (such VirtIO PCI/MMIO).