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Hypervisors

Introduction

Kata Containers supports multiple hypervisors. This document provides a very high level overview of the available hypervisors, giving suggestions as to which hypervisors you may wish to investigate further.

Note:

This document is not prescriptive or authoritative:

It is up to you to decide which hypervisors may be most appropriate for your use-case.

Refer to the official documentation for each hypervisor for further details.

Types

Hypervisor	Written in	Architectures	GPU Support	Intel TDX	AMD SEV-SNP
Cloud Hypervisor	rust	`aarch64`, `x86_64`	❌	❌	❌
Firecracker	rust	`aarch64`, `x86_64`	❌	❌	❌
QEMU	C	all	✅	✅	✅
Dragonball	rust	`aarch64`, `x86_64`	❌	❌	❌
StratoVirt	rust	`aarch64`, `x86_64`	❌	❌	❌

Each Kata runtime is configured for a specific hypervisor through the runtime's configuration file. For example:

[hypervisor.qemu]
path = "/opt/kata/bin/qemu-system-x86_64"

[hypervisor.clh]
path = "/opt/kata/bin/cloud-hypervisor"

Cloud Hypervisor

Cloud Hypervisor is a more modern hypervisor written in Rust.

Firecracker

Firecracker is a minimal and lightweight hypervisor created for the AWS Lambda product.

QEMU

QEMU is the best supported hypervisor for NVIDIA-based GPUs and for confidential computing use-cases (such as Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP). Runtimes that use this are normally named kata-qemu-nvidia-gpu-*. The Kata project focuses primarily on QEMU runtimes for GPU support.

Dragonball

Dragonball is a special hypervisor created by the Ant Group that runs in the same process as the Rust-based containerd shim.

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