Does anyone have details of the current situation in this area? For example, has ARM recently announced any related product(s)? What products are available for the Cortex -A17, for example? In particular, what are the non-proprietary options, if any?
Hi Mike,
The ARM Cortex-A17 supports hardware virtualisation (what I understand by your mention of "full") which was introduced since the ARM Cortex-A15 CPU.
On the open source front, you can look at Xen and KVM.
I know some ARM employees contribute to at least KVM!
Xen ARM with Virtualization Extensions - Xen
And for again more details :
Category:XenARM - Xen
Alban (and Jerome)
Thank you for your responses, BUT what we little people out here are struggling with is the confusion of terminologies in this area. Suppliers such as VMWare, for example, use the terms
. Full Virtualisation (hence my original question)
. Para virtualisation, and
. Hardware-ASSISTED virtualisation, whereas you, Alban, weigh in with just "Hardware Virtualisation".
Is there any ARM documentation which can help clear the fog ?