Hardware-supported virtualization on ARM
Authors
Prashant Varanasi and Gernot Heiser
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
NICTA, Sydney,
Australia
Open Kernel Labs, Sydney, Australia
Abstract
ARM is the dominant processor architecture for mobile devices and many other high-end embedded systems. Late last year ARM announced architectural support for virtualization, which will allow execution of unmodified guest operating system binaries. We have designed and implemented what we believe is the first hypervisor supporting pure virtualization using those hardware extensions and evaluated it on simulated hardware. We describe our approach and report our initial experience with the architecture.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{Varanasi_Heiser_11,
doi = {10.1145/2103799.2103813},
title = {Hardware-Supported Virtualization on {ARM}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems},
author = {Prashant Varanasi and Gernot Heiser},
year = {2011},
month = {Jul},
address = {Shanghai, China},
pages = {11:1--11:5}
}