Virtualization
From faster turnaround to reduced downtime and costs, the benefits of virtualization are clear to see.
Virtualization can be used for almost any use case, with it playing an ever more prominent role in up and coming technologies such as autonomous driving. Linaro plays a key role in QEMU - an open source hypervisor. Not only do Linaro employees and assignees act as main- tainers for Arm-specific areas of the codebase but we also take care of areas such as TCG code-generation, build and test automation, and release management. In addition to our work in QEMU, we are also driving the project Stratos, which is developing hypervisor agnostic Virtio interfaces and standards to address richer ecosystems such as automotive, and IoT.
Linaro Projects focused on Virtualization
Enable Arm Architecture in QEMU
QEMU is a free open-source emulator and virtualizer. Linaro plays a key role in the project ensuring the Arm ecosystem is well represented and actively maintained. We leverage our expertise as maintainers to support the upstreaming of new features from members and the wider community. We consistently rank in the top three of companies that participate in the development of this well respected project.
>> Learn more About Enabling Arm Architecture in QEMUProject Stratos
There is a growing trend towards virtualization in areas other than the traditional server environment. The server enviroment is uniform in nature but as we move towards a richer ecosystem in automotive, medical and general mobile and IoT spaces, the rich array of hypervisors and SoCs become a problem. Project Stratos is working towards developing hypervisor agnostic Virtio interfaces and standards.
>> Learn more About Project Stratos
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