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Highlights from the Cloud Hypervisor release v26.0:
**SMBIOS Improvements via `--platform`**
`--platform` and the appropriate API structure has gained support for supplying
OEM strings (primarily used to communicate metadata to systemd in the guest)
**Unified Binary MSHV and KVM Support**
Support for both the MSHV and KVM hypervisors can be compiled into the same
binary with the detection of the hypervisor to use made at runtime.
**Notable Bug Fixes**
* The prefetchable flag is preserved on BARs for VFIO devices
* PCI Express capabilties for functionality we do not support are now filtered
out
* GDB breakpoint support is more reliable
* SIGINT and SIGTERM signals are now handled before the VM has booted
* Multiple API event loop handling bug fixes
* Incorrect assumptions in virtio queue numbering were addressed, allowing
thevirtio-fs driver in OVMF to be used
* VHDX file format header fix
* The same VFIO device cannot be added twice
* SMBIOS tables were being incorrectly generated
**Deprecations**
Deprecated features will be removed in a subsequent release and users should
plan to use alternatives.
The top-level `kernel` and `initramfs` members on the `VmConfig` have been
moved inside a `PayloadConfig` as the `payload` member. The OpenAPI document
has been updated to reflect the change and the old API members continue to
function and are mapped to the new version. The expectation is that these old
versions will be removed in the v28.0 release.
**Removals**
The following functionality has been removed:
The unused poll_queue parameter has been removed from --disk and
equivalent. This was residual from the removal of the vhost-user-block
spawning feature.
Details can be found: https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/releases/tag/v26.0
Fixes: #4952
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chen.bo@intel.com>
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Kata Containers
Welcome to Kata Containers!
This repository is the home of the Kata Containers code for the 2.0 and newer releases.
If you want to learn about Kata Containers, visit the main Kata Containers website.
Introduction
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs.
License
The code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See the license file for further details.
Platform support
Kata Containers currently runs on 64-bit systems supporting the following technologies:
| Architecture | Virtualization technology |
|---|---|
x86_64, amd64 |
Intel VT-x, AMD SVM |
aarch64 ("arm64") |
ARM Hyp |
ppc64le |
IBM Power |
s390x |
IBM Z & LinuxONE SIE |
Hardware requirements
The Kata Containers runtime provides a command to determine if your host system is capable of running and creating a Kata Container:
$ kata-runtime check
Notes:
This command runs a number of checks including connecting to the network to determine if a newer release of Kata Containers is available on GitHub. If you do not wish this to check to run, add the
--no-network-checksoption.By default, only a brief success / failure message is printed. If more details are needed, the
--verboseflag can be used to display the list of all the checks performed.If the command is run as the
rootuser additional checks are run (including checking if another incompatible hypervisor is running). When running asroot, network checks are automatically disabled.
Getting started
See the installation documentation.
Documentation
See the official documentation including:
Configuration
Kata Containers uses a single configuration file which contains a number of sections for various parts of the Kata Containers system including the runtime, the agent and the hypervisor.
Hypervisors
See the hypervisors document and the Hypervisor specific configuration details.
Community
To learn more about the project, its community and governance, see the community repository. This is the first place to go if you wish to contribute to the project.
Getting help
See the community section for ways to contact us.
Raising issues
Please raise an issue in this repository.
Note: If you are reporting a security issue, please follow the vulnerability reporting process
Developers
See the developer guide.
Components
Main components
The table below lists the core parts of the project:
| Component | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| runtime | core | Main component run by a container manager and providing a containerd shimv2 runtime implementation. |
| agent | core | Management process running inside the virtual machine / POD that sets up the container environment. |
| documentation | documentation | Documentation common to all components (such as design and install documentation). |
| libraries | core | Library crates shared by multiple Kata Container components or published to crates.io |
| tests | tests | Excludes unit tests which live with the main code. |
Additional components
The table below lists the remaining parts of the project:
| Component | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| packaging | infrastructure | Scripts and metadata for producing packaged binaries (components, hypervisors, kernel and rootfs). |
| kernel | kernel | Linux kernel used by the hypervisor to boot the guest image. Patches are stored here. |
| osbuilder | infrastructure | Tool to create "mini O/S" rootfs and initrd images and kernel for the hypervisor. |
agent-ctl |
utility | Tool that provides low-level access for testing the agent. |
trace-forwarder |
utility | Agent tracing helper. |
runk |
utility | Standard OCI container runtime based on the agent. |
ci |
CI | Continuous Integration configuration files and scripts. |
katacontainers.io |
Source for the katacontainers.io site. |
Packaging and releases
Kata Containers is now available natively for most distributions. However, packaging scripts and metadata are still used to generate snap and GitHub releases. See the components section for further details.
Glossary of Terms
See the glossary of terms related to Kata Containers.