We are pleased to announce the release of ACRN™ Hypervisor version 1.2 which introduces a number of new features.
What’s New in Release Version 1.2
- Support for OVMF as virtual boot loader for Service VM to launch Clearlinux, VxWorks or Windows. Secure boot is also supported
- Support for Kata containers.
- Windows as a Guest (WaaG): USB host (xHCI) mediator
- Virtualization support for Always Running Timer (ART)
- Various bug fixes and enhancements
See the full release notes and latest documentation for more information about this 1.2 release.
Document updates
We have many reference documents available, including:
We have many reference documents available, including:
- Using Windows as User VM
- How to sign binaries of the Clear Linux image
- Using Celadon as User VM
- SGX Virtualization
We also updated the following documents based on the newly defined Usage Scenarios in this release, including:
- Introduction to Project ACRN
- Build ACRN from Source
- Supported Hardware
- Using Hybrid mode on NUC
- Launch Two User VMs on NUC using SDC2 Scenario
Refer to the ACRN version 1.2 release notes for more details.
About the ACRN™ Project
ACRN is a flexible, lightweight reference hypervisor, built with real-time and safety-criticality in mind, optimized to streamline embedded development through an open source platform. To learn more, please visit https://projectacrn.org/.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
