Re:VAccel: Hardware Acceleration for Lightweight Hypervisors
by tux1968 on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:51AM
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So rather than new hardware, this seems to be an application level API to abstract away hardware and provide portability between the supported targets.
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Re:VAccel: Hardware Acceleration for Lightweight Hypervisors
by _ananos_ on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:54AM
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yeap, the initial idea was to cover VMs (and one of the use cases is indeed Serverless, for instance AWS Firecracker), but as it turns out, there are users that might benefit from this simplified abstraction in general.