Modernizing Xen hypervisor core
Owner: teddy.astie
Time: Wed 2:00 PM 3 Dec +0100 (Europe/Berlin) Tentative
Location: Discovery Room

As an endless subject, we need to modernize Xen hypervisor code for future (and current !) needs. This ranges from performance to security including software/hardware compatibility, ability to use modern CPU features, … We need to know agree on what to improve in Xen, and eventually how to plan to work on it (in a actionable way) and priorities, discuss on designs …

Some topics :

  • AMD EPYC (ABI ?)
  • Modernizing Xen P2M code
  • Secure Boot
  • Xen toolstack ABI
  • New Xen guest ABI (“HVMv2”)
  • Nested Virtualization
  • NUMA-awareness
  • Xen IOMMU code and PV-IOMMU

(note that some subjects are intertwined and inter-dependant)