Purpose and Rationale

The Hypervisor Project is producing a common open licensed Automotive Standard Virtual Platform specification based on VIRTIO, and other standards.

On the more general scope, the project investigates the wide scope of open- source and commercial hypervisor technologies, and addresses challenges in their use.

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There are three primary work streams currently in development:

1. Virtual Device API standardization, leading to the definition of the Automotive standard Virtual Platform
   collecting and driving requirements for a standard platform based on VIRTIO, SCMI, and other existing standards.
   

2. Multi-OS system design on Multi-Core SoCs (with/without virtualisation)
3. Investigate and recommend electrical/software architecture for automotive use-cases, when deployed using virtual-machine technologies. 

Next Meeting

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Every Monday, 10:00 AM

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CET

Agenda:

• Graphics / GPU discussion, including new Mali releasePlanning deep-dive topic meetings to take a break from pure AVPS writing.

General backlog

• Graphics virtualization, continued modeling
• AVPS v2 work completed --> AVPS JIRA tickets for tracking 
  • Media & Cameras - finalize discussion?
  • Follow up on IOMMU discussion from 2 weeks ago.
  • A few other topics that need update
• Check progress on whitepaper
• Work on next release of platform definition
Look at active sprint & backlog of HV tracker
• Whitepaper planning (dormant at the moment)
• Deep-dive Memory Buffer sharing (GPU) - suggested by Eugen Friedrich
• Update Milestones, deliverables, and workplan.
• Use-cases, architectures and requirements workstream (dormant)
• Re-review scope of workand synergy opportunities,  AGL virtualization EG.  Links to previous papers below.
• Establish scope of work and synergy opportunities for virtualization in AUTOSAR
• Android and Trout, evaluation and establish relationship to AVPS.

Zoom Meeting details:

• • Registration link (if you do it before, it saves time)
  • Join link
  • Meeting password: hvws !hvws2020

Meeting Minutes (← use link)

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GENIVI 20th All Member Meeting a Digital Experience

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• Dates: 24-25 September 2019 (Tuesday, Wednesday)
• Location: Opensynergy, Berlin, Germany
  • directions: to be added
  • hotel recommendations: to be added
• Agenda: Hypervisor Project F2F meeting 20190924-25

Backlog (Topic List)

 Review / check consensus on USB chapter of specification + other minor edits (Artem to come back with new info)

• AI/Tensor processing, on GPU or other dedicated hardware
• Deep-dive Memory Buffer sharing (GPU) - invite Eugen Friedrich
• Update Milestones, deliverables, and workplan.
• (started, needs input again) Use-cases, architectures and requirements workstream
• Some was added to the AGL publication on virtualization after our most recent review.  Re-review, to identify useful/reusable parts.  Links at the bottom.

Original sub-topics (Possible focus areas)

Resources

  Videos/recordings

• Automotive World / GENIVI Webinar: Hypervisors in the vehicle: A standards-based approach to virtualization
  by Tero Salminen, Senior Director Product: Virtualization, at OpenSynergy, and GENIVI Technical Lead Gunnar Andersson.
  
• Linux Plumbers Conference, 2020 
  – Android Microconference :  Android Automotive OS virtualization (Cuttlefish->Trout) – and related: Memory protection in KVM for Android, 
  – Android BoF: Virtualization discussion
• Platform Security Summit May 23-24, 2018 - had several hypervisor related presentations – Youtube, (website)

  Related publications and input

• Report (transcript) from Automotive World Webinar, 13 February 2020
• White paper from Mentor found under this link..

• Samsung Resarch - Automotive Virtualization, presented at Xen Summit 2018.

• VIRTIO v1.0 specification 
• VIRTIO 1.1 specification (and newer git master) 
  • What's new in VIRTIO 1.1 – FOSDEM 2018 presentation  
  • What's new in VIRTIO 1.1 – another at DPDK.org
  • An update on VIRTIO - FOSDEM 2019
• The AGL software defined connected car architecture (a.k.a "AGL virtualization paper")
  • PDF (snapshot May 2018)  ^^^ NOTE that is an older snapshot of a living paper, (Google Docs edit location).
  • Paper analysis/summary written by Nikola Velinov with intro paragraph by Gunnar Andersson – based on May 2018 snapshot.
  • UPDATE:→ Study this latest published version (June 2018) from AGL publication page
    

• Ward's Auto online magazine – GENIVI article: A Better Managed Approach to Virtualization in Automotive 

• APIs for security: Mandatory Access Control features (in virtualization environments, that is)
• VM management tool
• Instrumentation & tools
• Safety compliance: ISO26262
• Security compliance: Common Criteria, EAL
• System design to optimize Boot Time,
• Boot requirements, e.g. secure boot, integrity check,
• Agree on Terms / Nomenclature

Mailing list & Contribution

1. Discussion should use the general genivi-projects mailing list.  Start the subject line using: [HVWS]
2. The Wiki is an open public collaboration area.  Please contribute/improve it as needed.  Improve text, add relate info, links, references! 
   To edit the Wiki, log in or request an account.
3. Any other process question? - you can contact the acting project lead:  Gunnar Andersson

Upcoming Events / F2F

GENIVI 20th All Member Meeting a Digital Experience

F2F Meetings (completed)

• Dates: 24-25 September 2019 (Tuesday, Wednesday)
• Location: Opensynergy, Berlin, Germany
• Agenda: Hypervisor Project F2F meeting 20190924-25

• Bangalore Technical Summit Agenda (2018 October)

• Munich AMM Workshop Agenda (2018 April)

Original topic-list (possible focus areas)

• APIs for security: Mandatory Access Control features (in virtualization environments, that is)
• VM management tool
• Instrumentation & tools
• Safety compliance: ISO26262
• Security compliance: Common Criteria, EAL
• System design to optimize Boot Time,
• Boot requirements, e.g. secure boot, integrity check,
• Agree on Terms / Nomenclature

Done / skipped / no longer on backlog

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The work is documented here

Other resources and Links

  Related publications and input

• Report (transcript) from Automotive World Webinar, 13 February 2020
• White paper from Mentor found under this link..

• Samsung Resarch - Automotive Virtualization, presented at Xen Summit 2018.

• VIRTIO v1.0 specification (and newer git master?) – first start for our investigation into the definition of an Automotive-Wide virtualization platform
  • What's new in VIRTIO 1.1 – FOSDEM 2018 presentation  
  • What's new in VIRTIO 1.1 – another at DPDK.org
  • An update on VIRTIO - FOSDEM 2019
• The AGL software defined connected car architecture (a.k.a "AGL virtualization paper")
  • PDF (snapshot May 2018)  ^^^ NOTE that is an older snapshot of a living paper, (Google Docs edit location).
  • Paper analysis/summary written by Nikola Velinov with intro paragraph by Gunnar Andersson – based on May 2018 snapshot.
  • UPDATE:→ Study this latest published version (June 2018) from AGL publication page
    

  Videos/recordings

• Platform Security Summit May 23-24, 2018 - had several hypervisor related presentations – Youtube, (website)

Bangalore Technical Summit Agenda (2018 October) (← use link)

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  ( ^^ includes links to many topic presentations by the participants)

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