Minos - Type 1 Hypervisor for ARMv8-A
Minos is a lightweight open source Type 1 Hypervisor for mobile and embedded systems that runs directly in bare metal environments. Minos implements a complete virtualization framework that can run multiple VMs (Linux or RTOS) on one hardware platform. Minos provides CPU virtualization; interrupt virtualization; memory virtualization; Timer virtual; and the virtualization of some common peripherals.
Minos provides an application “mvm” running on VM0 to support the management of the Guest VM. At the same time, mvm provides a virtio-based paravirtualization solution that supports virtio-console, virtio-blk, virtio-net and other devices. Minos can support both 64bit and 32bit guest VM, but VM0 must use 64bit.
Minos is suitable for mobile and embedded platforms and currently only supports the ARMv8-A architecture. Marvell’s Esspressobin and Raspberry Pi 3 are supported, and