Re: Support Android hypervisors

[RR NN <rnn59437@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 14:09 Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:

> RR NN <rnn59437@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) supports "KVM(pKVM)"
>
> Does the user-space API change for pKVM? As far as I'm aware the
> userspace API is the same.
>
> > also Qualcomm's "Gunyah"
>
> Feel free to review:
>
>
> https://patchew.org/QEMU/20240109090039.1636383-1-quic._5Fsvaddagi@quicinc.com/
>
> > and MediaTek's "GenieZone" as
> > the hypervisor. Please Add these hypervisors to QEMU.
>
> Generally the QEMU community hasn't the bandwidth to implement every
> requested feature so we rely on those with an interest to step forward
> and work on the code.
>
> That said it doesn't look like the kernel side of UAPI is anywhere close
> to getting merged:
>
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240129083302.26044-1-yi-de.wu@mediatek.com/
>
> I should also note that proprietary hypervisors locked to specific SoC's
> make it even more challenging for open source developers to work on it.
> I for one wouldn't want to try and get a hypervisor working if I
> couldn't see the code and get it up and running under QEMU's emulation.
>
> --
> Alex Bennée
> Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
>

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