The "Jailhouse" hypervisor
The "Jailhouse" hypervisor
The Jailhouse project has announced its
existence. Jailhouse is a Linux-native hypervisor like KVM, but with a
focus on minimalism and isolation of virtual machines on dedicated CPUs.
"Jailhouse is a partitioning hypervisor that can create asymmetric
multiprocessing (AMP) setups on Linux-based systems. That means it runs
bare-metal applications or non-Linux OSes aside a standard Linux kernel on
one multicore hardware platform. Jailhouse ensures isolation between these
'cells', as we call them, via hardware-assisted virtualization. The
typical workloads we expect to see in non-Linux cells are applications with
highly demanding real-time, safety or security requirements.
" The
project is in an early stage and looking for interested developers.