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

2010-01-21 Thread 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,

Luvalley-3 has been released, this release is for AMD CPU only

2009-06-19 Thread Xiaodong Yi
Hi, all, This Luvalley release is for machines with AMD CPUs only. It cannot work on Intel CPUs. Also, this release is for Linux dom0 only. Please refer to Luvalley-2 if you have a machine with Intel CPUs. Due to the limitations of AMD CPUs, this Luvalley release has a new architecture different

Re: Luvalley-2 has been released: running KVM below any operating system

2009-05-10 Thread Xiaodong Yi
Thanks for your advice and hope your continue attention on Luvalley. Regards, Xiaodong 2009/5/11 Dong, Eddie eddie.d...@intel.com: Xiaodong Yi wrote: It is not a typo. I copied from UnixBench output directly. Howver, it must be a bug of Luvalley because even the native Linux benchmark

Re: Luvalley-2 has been released: running KVM below any operating system

2009-04-19 Thread Xiaodong Yi
and shell script are 20% ~ 40% higher than KVM, while other benchmarks on pipe throughput, context switching and syscall overhead are almost the same as KVM. Thanks for your attention, Xiaodong 2009/4/19 Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com: Jan Kiszka wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Xiaodong Yi wrote: Hi

Re: Luvalley-2 has been released: running KVM below any operating system

2009-04-17 Thread Xiaodong Yi
2523.8 System Call Overhead 15000.01470446.3980.3 System Benchmarks Index Score1356.6 Welcome to feedback. Regards, Xiaodong Yi 2009/4/16

Re: Luvalley-2 has been released: running KVM below any operating system

2009-04-17 Thread Xiaodong Yi
Benchmarks Index Score 558.9 Thanks for your attention and welcome further feedback. Regards, Xiaodong Yi 2009/4/16 Zhang, Xiantao xiantao.zh...@intel.com: How about performance comparision with kvm guests? Xiantao -Original Message- From

Re: Luvalley project: running KVM without Linux

2009-03-26 Thread Xiaodong Yi
. -- regards Yang, Sheng I will give it a try! Thanks, Jun On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Xiaodong Yi xdong...@gmail.com wrote: Luvalley is a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) spawned from the KVM project. Its part of source codes are derived from KVM to virtualize CPU instructions and memory

Luvalley project: running KVM without Linux

2009-03-25 Thread Xiaodong Yi
Luvalley is a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) spawned from the KVM project. 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