Hypervisor on Moe's VR bloghttps://mohandacherir.github.io/Qdiv7/tags/hypervisor/Recent content in Hypervisor on Moe's VR blogHugoenMon, 06 Jul 2026 14:50:23 +0200Notes on ARM Virtualization and (p)KVMhttps://mohandacherir.github.io/Qdiv7/posts/arm-virtualization-pkvm/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:50:23 +0200https://mohandacherir.github.io/Qdiv7/posts/arm-virtualization-pkvm/<p>A <strong>Hypervisor</strong> is a software layer that abstracts lower components, like hardware, and isolates upper components from each other - think VMs. These notes are about ARM&rsquo;s EL2 hypervisor, since there multiple types and platforms: type 1 or bare-metal like <strong>Xen</strong>, type 2 like VirtualBox and Qemu(without KVM). And there&rsquo;s KVM which is a kind of type 1.5-ish that is part of the Linux kernel; the part that runs in EL2 is called <strong>LowVisor</strong> (Christoffer Dall, 2014), the rest of it (<strong>HighVisor</strong>) runs in EL1 alongside the rest of the kernel.</p>