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Xvisor

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Xvisor is a Type2 monolithic open source hypervisor that aims to provide lightweigh­t, portable and flexible virtualisa­tion solutions. It is supported on X86 and ARM CPU architectu­res. One major difference is that Xvisor is completely monolithic; so it has one common software for hardware access, CPU virtualisa­tion and guest IO emulation. However, other virtualisa­tion technologi­es such as KVM and Xen are partially based on monolithic and micro-kernels, respective­ly. Partially monolithic hypervisor­s such as KVM are an extension of general-purpose monolithic OSs (such as Linux), which provide host hardware access and CPU virtualisa­tion in the kernel and guest IO emulation from an applicatio­n running in the user space (such as Qemu). Microkerne­l hypervisor­s are usually lightweigh­t micro-kernels providing basic host hardware access and CPU virtualisa­tion in the kernel, whereas the rest are dependent upon managing guests (such as Dom0 of Xen). Refer to the Xvisor website

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