[Qemu-devel] Luvalley-5 has been released (with whitepaper!): enables arbitrary OS to run VMs without any modification

[Xiaodong Yi]

Luvalley is a lightweight type-1 Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM).
Its part of source codes are derived from KVM to virtualize
CPU instructions and memory management unit (MMU). However, its
overall architecture is completely different from KVM, but somewhat
like Xen. Luvalley runs outside of Linux, just like Xen's architecture.
Any operating system, including Linux, could be used as
Luvalley's scheduler, memory manager, physical device driver provider
and virtual IO device
emulator. Currently, Luvalley supports Linux and Windows. That is to
say, one may run Luvalley to boot a Linux or Windows, and then run
multiple virtualized operating systems on such Linux or Windows.

>From the point of view of Qemu, Luvalley enables Qemu to utilize the
Intel's VT extension to gain much better performance.

If you are interested in Luvalley project, you may download the source
codes as well as the whitepaper from
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/luvalley/

The main changes of this release (Luvalley-5) are:

 * The code derived is updated from KVM-83 to KVM-88

 * Supports both Intel and AMD CPUs

 * Automatically identify Intel and AMD CPUs

This release (Luvalley-5) includes:

 * Luvalley whitepaper (the first edition)

 * Luvalley binary and source code tarball

 * Readme, changelog and release notes files