Re: VIRTIO adoption in other hypervisors

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 28.02.20 11:16, Alex BennÃe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently trying to get my head around virtio and was wondering how
> widespread adoption of virtio is amongst the various hypervisors and
> emulators out there.
>
> Obviously I'm familiar with QEMU both via KVM and even when just doing
> plain emulation (although with some restrictions). As far as I'm aware
> the various Rust based VMMs have vary degrees of support for virtio
> devices over KVM as well. CrosVM specifically is embracing virtio for
> multi-process device emulation.
>
> I believe there has been some development work for supporting VIRTIO on
> Xen although it seems to have stalled according to:
>
>    https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Virtio_On_Xen
>
> Recently at KVM Forum there was Jan's talk about Inter-VM shared memory
> which proposed ivshmemv2 as a VIRTIO transport:
>
>    https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum-2019/program/schedule/
>
> As I understood it this would allow Xen (and other hypervisors) a simple
> way to be able to carry virtio traffic between guest and end point.
>
> So some questions:
>
>    - Am I missing anything out in that summary?
>    - How about HyperV and the OSX equivalent?
>    - Do any other type-1 hypervisors support virtio?

From the top of my head, some other hypervisors with virtio support 
(irrespective of any classification):

https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve
https://projectacrn.org/
http://www.xhypervisor.org/
https://www.opensynergy.com/automotive-hypervisor/

But there are likely more.

Jan

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