Archived/Xen ARM (PV)

For the ARM port for processors with hardware virtualization extensions see Xen ARMv7 with Virtualization Extensions.

Xen ARM Project

Xen-ARM is called originally Secure Xen on ARM which consists of Xen on ARM VMM and the associated access control.

Contributing

Please email xen-arm@lists.xensource.com with comments, questions, and patches. For patches, please prefix the email subject with "[patch]". Use http://lists.xensource.com/xen-arm to subscribe and to access the archives.

Current Status

Secure Xen on ARM supports the ARMv7 architecture family, specific platform we test/run on is:

• nVidia Tegra250 Development Board

Note : This release does not support all architectures prior to ARM v7. Previous versions of Xen-ARM can be found on the Xen-ARM archives section.

• Note that Xen ARM is currently rebased onto xen-unstable such that it can be upstreamed. The work is currently performed on Jaemin Ryu's personal branch

Another Jaemin Ryu's personal branch, target on tegra250

Xen-ARM source

Click xen-arm-opensource-20110714.tar.bz2 to download the latest officially released Xen-ARM package.

Documents

• Secure Xen on ARM User's Guide: Secure_Xen_on_ARM_User_Guide_v1_1.pdf

Bug Tracking

We are using the main Xen bugzilla bugtracking system: all ARM bugs. Please create an account so that bugs may be assigned to you. ;-)

Xen-ARM Archives

Android Goldfish (QEMU 0.82 based Android emulator):

• Patching the QEMU: qemu-xen_arm-081120.tar.bz2
• Some source codes of emulator are modified in order to make the emulator load two mini-os images into RAM before executing Secure Xen on ARM.
• More details on how to run Secure Xen on ARM on modified Goldfish emulator are found in the section A.2 of user guide.

Para-virtualized uC/OS-II RTOS:

• Source codes: ucos_ii_xen_on_arm.zip
• Readme file: paravirtualized_uC$OS-II_readme.txt

Older versions of Xen ARM

• xen-arm-opensource-20101019.tar.bz2
• xen-arm-opensource-20081210.tar.bz2
• Secure Xen on ARM User's Guide (for 2008 release)

Links

• XenSummit Asia 2011: presentations see http://xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_fall_2011.html
  • Keynote Speech: Xen ARM Virtualization
  • Hardware accelerated Virtualization in the ARM Cortex Processors
  • Mobile Virtualization using the Xen Technologies (not specifically ARM, but a proposal for Android on Android virtualization via Xen)
• XenSummit 2011 North America: presentations see http://xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_summer_2011.html
  • Xen ARM project update
  • Minimizing I/O latency in Xen ARM
• Xen ARM update from Xen Summit 2010 North America: http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/xen-arm and video: http://vimeo.com/12438378 .
• Update of Secure Xen on ARM (Xen Summit 2008 North America)
  • http://www.xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/SecureXenARM_XenSummitNorthAmerica2008.pdf
• Secure Architecure and Implementation of Xen on the ARM 9 for mobile devices (Xen Summit April 2007)
  • http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_4/Secure_Xen_ARM_xen-summit-04_07_Suh.pdf
• Secure Xen on ARM (Xen Summit November 2007)
  • http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_fall07/14_SangBumSuh.pdf

Contact

• Sang-bum SUH sbuk.suh@samsung.com