Luvalley is a lightweight type-1 Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). Its part of source codes are derived from KVM to virtualize CPU instructions and memory management unit (MMU). However, its overall architecture is completely different from KVM, but somewhat like Xen. Luvalley runs outside of Linux, just like Xen's architecture. Any operating system, including Linux, could be used as Luvalley's scheduler, memory manager, physical device driver provider and virtual IO device emulator. Currently, Luvalley supports Linux and Windows. That is to say, one may run Luvalley to boot a Linux or Windows, and then run multiple virtualized operating systems on such Linux or Windows.
>From the point of view of Qemu, Luvalley enables Qemu to utilize the Intel's VT extension to gain much better performance. If you are interested in Luvalley project, you may download the source codes as well as the whitepaper from http://sourceforge.net/projects/luvalley/ The main changes of this release (Luvalley-5) are: * The code derived is updated from KVM-83 to KVM-88 * Supports both Intel and AMD CPUs * Automatically identify Intel and AMD CPUs This release (Luvalley-5) includes: * Luvalley whitepaper (the first edition) * Luvalley binary and source code tarball * Readme, changelog and release notes files
