"Udo A. Steinberg" udo@hypervisor.org writes:

Hi,

The NOVA project is happy to announce that there is a new prerelease of the NOVA microhypervisor available for download at http://www.hypervisor.org/ or http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~us15/nova/ under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

NOVA is based on a modern microhypervisor written in C++ and assembler. The current implementation supports x86-32 SMP platforms with hardware virtualization features such as Intel VT-x/VT-d or AMD-V, and facilitates running multiple unmodified guest operating systems in virtual machines with near-native performance. On machines without VT-x or AMD-V, the functionality is reduced to that of a microkernel.

Of course, a microhypervisor is nothing without its userland. The NOVA project is happy to announce that there is also a new prerelease of the NOVA userland (NUL). NUL is available under the terms of the GPLv2.

Prominent new features of the root partition manager are:

- support for one-shot timers (HPET) - MSI and MSI-X support - direct assignment of PCI devices to VMs - IRQ routing discovery - SMP support - Intel 82576 network card driver - SR-IOV - VESA VBE 2.0 support

New features of the VMM include:

- APIC, IO-APIC, and MSI/MSI-X support - experimental SMP VM support - Intel 82576VF network card model - RTL8029 network card model

Additional information is available in the source tarball and at http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~kauer/nova/

For the impatient: Source : http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jsteckli/nova/nova-userland-0.2.tar.bz2 DemoCD : http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jsteckli/nova/NOVA-0.2.iso.bz2

Regards, Julian -- "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay