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Content Tagged with Paravirtualization + hypervisor

Virtual Machine Interface (VMI)

VMWare takes a stab at paravirtualization. The article mentions VMWare's intent to support multiple hypervisors. The VMI spec is open to all.

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IBM Research Hypervisor

The Research Hypervisor from IBM research has been developed over the last 3 years to validate virtualization features in new hardware architectures and to study fundamental research issues in virtualization. For example, the Research Hypervisor has been used:

  • to validate features developed for new processors like the Cell.
  • to study future architecture ideas and functions for the high performance computing community within the PERCS project for DARPA.
  • to study security in the context of virtualization within the sHype project.

The Research Hypervisor was designed from the start to be multi-platform, and today supports both the Power and x86 architectures. On Power, it conforms to the interfaces used by Linux running on IBM’s commercial POWER Hypervisor in the new POWER5-based servers, and hence runs unmodified Linux distributions. On Intel we support a modified Linux kernel and demonstrate the multi-platform characteristics of the POWER Hypervisor interfaces.