We are pleased to announce the release of ACRN™ Hypervisor version 1.5 which introduces a number of new features.
Version 1.5 major features
What’s New in v1.5
- Basic CPU sharing: Fairness Round-Robin CPU Scheduling has been added to support basic CPU sharing (the Service VM and WaaG share one CPU core).
- 8th Gen Intel® Core ™ Processors (code name Whiskey Lake) are now supported and validated.
- Overall stability and performance has been improved.
- An offline configuration tool has been created to help developers port ACRN to different hardware boards.
See the full release notes and latest documentation for more information about this 1.5 release.
Document updates
Many new reference documents are available, including:
- Run Kata Containers on a Service VM
- Supported Hardware (Addition of Whiskey Lake information)
- ACRN CPU Sharing
- Using Windows as Guest VM on ACRN (Update to use ACRNGT GOP to install Windows)
Refer to the ACRN version 1.5 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.
