Other machines and other ARMv7 with virtualization extensions CPUs will be supported

Dec 6, 2011 11:10 GMT  ·  By

Stefano Stabellini, a software engineer at Citrix R&D (former XenSource Ltd), has announced that a nascent Xen port for Cortex-A15 is now available.

Stefano Stabellini and a few other developers tarted hacking on a proof-of-concept hypervisor port to Cortex-A15 which uses and requires ARMv7 virtualization extension, just a few months ago.

Now, they are reporting that a lot of progress has been made and that a Xen for Cortex-A15 is now possible. According to the developers, the port is based on xen-unstable (HG CS 8d6edc3d26d2) and written from scratch exploiting the latest virtualization, LPAE, GIC and generic timer support in hardware.

The port is capable of booting a Linux 3.0 based virtual machine (dom0) up to a shell prompt on an ARM Architecture Envelope Model, configured to emulate an A15-based Versatile Express.

The complete details about this port can be found here.