How about performance comparision with kvm guests? Xiantao -----Original Message----- From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Xiaodong Yi Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:54 AM To: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Luvalley-2 has been released: running KVM below any operating system Luvalley is a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) spawned from the KVM project. Its part of source codes are derived from KVM to virtualize CPU instructions and memory management unit (MMU). However, its overall architecture is completely different from KVM, but somewhat like Xen. Luvalley runs outside of Linux, just like Xen's architecture. Any operating system, including Linux, could be used as Luvalley's scheduler, memory manager, physical device driver provider and virtual IO device emulator. Currently, Luvalley supports Linux and Windows. That is to say, one may run Luvalley to boot a Linux or Windows, and then run multiple virtualized operating systems on such Linux or Windows. If you are interested in Luvalley project, you may download the source codes from http://sourceforge.net/projects/luvalley/ This release (i.e., luvalley-2) updated Qemu in both Linux and Windows. So the limitations of the previous release (i.e., luvalley-1) have been partially eliminated. For example, the Qemu in Windows allows to create disk images and install gueest operating systems. This release has 4 tarballs: * luvalley-2.tgz: this is the source codes of the kernel part of Luvalley, which should be compiled in Linux. It is running below any operating system to provide virtualization extension for Intel's X86/32 computers. See the README file of the tarball for how to compile and run Luvalley. * qemu-linux.tgz: this is the source codes of the modified Qemu for running virtualized guest OSs in Linux. It is derived from Qemu of KVM-83. See the README file of the tarball for how to compile and run. * qemu-windows.tgz: this is the source codes of the modified Qemu for running virtualized guest OSs in Windows. It is derived from Qemu-0.10.2. See the README file of the tarball for how to build and run. * WindowsXP-Bins.rar: this is the pre-compiled binaries for running in Windows XP. It should be uncompressed in Windows XP operating system with WinRAR or other programs that supports .rar format. See the README file of the package for how to install and run in Windows XP. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
