We are pleased to announce the release of ACRN™ Hypervisor version 1.3 which introduces a number of new features.
What’s New in Release Version 1.3
- Introduced the`acrn-config` tool to configure the VM and hypervisor from a XML configuration file at build time. See ACRN Configuration Tool Manual
- OVMF supports Graphics Output Protocol (GOP), allowing Windows logo at guest VM boot time.
- Platform-level coordinated graceful shutdown (S5) for User VMs.
- Virtual UART (vUART) for inter-VM communication.
- Ethernet mediator now supports prioritization per VM.
- Features for real-time determinism, e.g. Cache Allocation Technology (CAT, only supported on Apollo Lake).
Overview of the ACRN Configuration Tool
See the full release notes and latest documentation for more information about this 1.3 release.
Document updates
We have many reference documents available, including:
- Getting Start Guide for Industry scenarios
- ACRN Configuration Tool Manual
- Trace and Data Collection for ACRN Real-Time(RT) Performance Tuning
- Building ACRN in Docker
- Running Ubuntu as the User VM
- Running Debian as the User VM
- Running Debian as a Service VM
- vUart Configuration
- Enable virtio-i2c
Refer to the ACRN version 1.3 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.
