Virtual Open Systems Newsletter

Achievements related to KVM Virtualization for ARM Embedded Systems

Product news: KVM on ARM

The flagship product Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM on ARM) is an open source hypervisor, for ARM platforms, that continues its positioning as solution of reference in server, networking and consumer markets. The royalty free KVM hypervisor is used to create virtual machines, leading to an overall system power reduction. Virtual Open Systems provides commercial support to customize and enhance performance of KVM on dedicated system platforms based on ARM processors.

Leading the innovation: Trescca Project

Virtual Open Systems announces company involvement in a new three years EU project, TRESCCA TRustworthy Embedded Systems for Secure Cloud Computing Applications, dedicated to lay out the foundations of a secure and trustable cloud platform by ensuring strong logical and physical security on the edge devices, using both hardware security and virtualization techniques while considering the whole cloud architecture. The project proposes and demonstrates hardware/software solutions allowing stakeholders to delegate the processing of their sensitive data to a remote processing engine opening up to a whole new field of cloud services and applications. The approach avoids undesirable paradigm shifts, both in the software and in the hardware by complementing existing legacy solutions by non-intrusive add-ons. Security is a main concern but cost, performance and acceptability are also considered as key metrics. In order to promote the solutions and to challenge them against security experts, KVM-on-ARM hypervisor is one of the key technological pillar of the project. Virtual Open Systems develops an enhanced secure version of KVM-on-ARM that enables a secure virtualization of a SoC platform.

Golden guide: KVM on Chromebook

A new step by step guide has been published to experience KVM virtualization on a real laptop based on Cortex-A15. The guide explains how to install KVM on Samsung's ARM Chromebook, enabling the usage of multiple popular operating systems (ChromeOS, Ubuntu, Android). To learn more register to the company website to discover the KVM on Chromebook guide.

Standardization: ETSI NFV working Group

Virtual Open Systems becomes member of ETSI to actively contribute to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) working group. NFV aims to enable the replacement of a variety of proprietary hardware appliances used by the network's operators to provide services with virtualized network equipments built on top of industry standard high volume servers. In order to build a network-centric connected world, where services can be easily and quickly deployed, Virtual Open Systems believes that NFV is a key technology for any data plane packet processing and control plane function in both fixed and mobile network infrastructures.

Open source activity: VFIO on ARM IOMMU

Virtual Open Systems has submitted several patch series related to VFIO for IOMMU and ARM AArch64 to the open source Linux community and as well to the google's chromium developer community.