search for: avatt

...omes from this fairly simple question : What is the value-added from an OEM point of view to need 3rd parties to provide an Hypervisor Layer knowing that Virtualization is a feature from the Hardware (so it belongs to the CPU / Chipset / OEM World) and they are not necessary to enable it (coreboot AVATT prototype is the most successful example [1]), however they are making the greatest benefits from it ? To quote [2] : "There's actually a lot to be said for the embedded hypervisor. Lots of IT environments--especially enterprise ones--do indeed have a mix of operating systems and oper...

...omes from this fairly simple question : What is the value-added from an OEM point of view to need 3rd parties to provide an Hypervisor Layer knowing that Virtualization is a feature from the Hardware (so it belongs to the CPU / Chipset / OEM World) and they are not necessary to enable it (coreboot AVATT prototype is the most successful example [1]), however they are making the greatest benefits from it ? To quote [2] : "There's actually a lot to be said for the embedded hypervisor. Lots of IT environments--especially enterprise ones--do indeed have a mix of operating systems and oper...

...he various solutions (Citrix, VMware and Microsoft), it seemed natural to our eyes, to enable a true bare-metal hypervisor, to go as close as possible to the hardware, hence the BIOS. That's why we are currently going further since the first successful prototype of the coreboot GSOC project AVATT (All Virtual All The Time) [1] [2]. Coreboot is an open source hardware initialization firmware. It does some basic hardware init, then hands over control to one of many possible payloads. This Google Summer of Code sponsored project suggested the idea of implementing a Linux kernel with KVM (Ker...