Members: 

*Note: If anyone would like drop from this member list, please remove your name or alternatively contact @Jerry, Zhao Jiancong

Role of AGL in Virtualization Standardization

• OASIS(VirtIO 1.1): general standard on virtio specification

• GENIVI - AVPS: automotive-centered specification

• AGL: coding & implementation for real automotive use (more close to real product)

Virtualization EG Roadmap in 2020

• Support VirtIO in AGL

  • Multi-VM VirtIO PoC 

  • AGL Virtualization White Paper Update

  • VirtIO Frontend Integration in AGL

*Note: Anyone would like to propose other activities for EG, please write down here and state your name beside.

Sub-activities

Multi-VM VirtIO PoC

• Purpose: To show the features and evaluate performance for VirtIO automotive use

• Define common specification, architecture and evaluation items for the EG PoC

  • Discussion on VirtIO Devices to be used in different automotive use cases (IVI, IC, Telematics)

    • what virtual devices should be used

    • how the virtual devices should be used (pass-through/front-end/back-end)

• Implementation

  • HW:

    • Emulator: QEMU 

    • SoC: TBD

      • Options:

        • Renesas M3/H3 (H3 is hard to get for some members)

        • Qualcomm Board

        • QEMU x86

        • other companies' SoC

    • HW: TBD

      • Options:

        • Renesas Reference Board

        • LEGO

        • ...

  • SW: 

    • Hypervisor: Any OSS/commercial hypervisor that supports VirtIO

    • Front-end Device Driver: Open Source

    • Back-end Device Driver: Proprietary for most of the case (QEMU has open source backend) 

  • How:

    • idea: break down to several PoCs with incremental features

      • step 1: common/basic feature only (only 1 guest VM, only simple virtio devices such as virtio-blk, virtio-net)

      • step 2: more advanced feature

  • Who:

    • option 1: voluntary implementation from members (PoC in the name of the company/community) → option 1 selected

      • Volunteer 1: OpenSynergy (@Mikhail Golubev (Deactivated) )

        • Hardware: LEGO Renesas Board (AGL Reference HW)

        • Hypervisor: COQOS Hypervisor

        • VM: 1 AGL Backend (HH 8.x) & 1 AGL Frontend (HH 8.x) => think about updating to Jellyfish

        • virtio devices: blk, net, input, gpu(2d), gpu(3d? → may be passthrough)

      • Volunteer 2: Linaro (@Former user (Deleted))

        • Hardware: 96Board

        • Hypervisor: Xen Hypervisor

        • VM: TBD

        • virtio devices

    • option 2: get funding support from Linux Foundation (PoC in the name of AGL community)

  • Potential Target Event:
    @Walt Miner to check if possible to present PoCs in the name of Virtualization EG (ALS, AMM)

    • 2020.12 AGL ALS → held virtually on December 2~4 (option selected. will attend in the form of virt-eg)

      • @Jerry, Zhao Jiancong to send a title and abstract for the talk to @Walt Miner  (by Sep 23, 2020)

    • 2021.1 CES2021 → AGL will not attend CES2021

    • 2021.3 AGL AMM

Update on AGL Virtualization White Paper

• Purpose:

  • A summary of virtio discussion in AGL Virtualization EG

  • To update original contents in the white paper published 2 years ago

  • To include new topics such as standardization in automotive virtualization (virtio) in the whitepaper

• Previous AGL Virtualization White Paper: https://www.automotivelinux.org/blog/2018/06/20/agl-publishes-virtualization-white-paper/

• Possible Topics:

  • Role of AGL in virtualization standardization (compared with other OSS promoting community such as GENIVI, OASIS)

  • Device Virtualization (VirtIO) Related

    • What is VirtIO and why it is important

    • How VirtIO can be used in automotive (uses cases in IC, IVI, Telematics)

    • Sample VirtIO-based architecture

    • Performance Indicator/Criteria for different virtual devices. Possible open source tools for the evaluation.

  • Future of Standardization in Virtualization of Automotive (such as virtio-backend standardization)

Status: Pending @Walt Miner  to find the editable version of previous whitepaper

VirtIO Frontend Integration In AGL

• Activity Leader: @Mikhail Golubev (Deactivated)

• Yocto layer to enable user to choose whether to use VirtIO or not.

• Introduce virtio-blk, net, console, random generator, gpu2d&3d in AGL K

  • release date: Feb 12, 2021 

  • release candidate 1: Nov 20, 2020 

  • release candidate 2: Dec 2, 2020 
    (ddl to include new feature in to AGL K is RC2)

• Introduce other standardized and upstream available virtio devices in AGL L

VirtIO Backend Standardization Discussion

Pending to find a volunteer to lead the activity

Members: 

*Note: If anyone would like drop from this member list, please remove your name or alternatively contact @Jerry, Zhao Jiancong

Role of AGL in Virtualization Standardization

• OASIS(VirtIO 1.1): general standard on virtio specification

• GENIVI - AVPS: automotive-centered specification

• AGL: coding & implementation for real automotive use (more close to real product)

Virtualization EG Roadmap in 2020

• Support VirtIO in AGL

  • Multi-VM VirtIO PoC 

  • AGL Virtualization White Paper Update

  • VirtIO Frontend Integration in AGL

*Note: Anyone would like to propose other activities for EG, please write down here and state your name beside.

Sub-activities

Multi-VM VirtIO PoC

• Purpose: To show the features and evaluate performance for VirtIO automotive use

• Define common specification, architecture and evaluation items for the EG PoC

  • Discussion on VirtIO Devices to be used in different automotive use cases (IVI, IC, Telematics)

    • what virtual devices should be used

    • how the virtual devices should be used (pass-through/front-end/back-end)

• Implementation

  • HW:

    • Emulator: QEMU 

    • SoC: TBD

      • Options:

        • Renesas M3/H3 (H3 is hard to get for some members)

        • Qualcomm Board

        • QEMU x86

        • other companies' SoC

    • HW: TBD

      • Options:

        • Renesas Reference Board

        • LEGO

        • ...

  • SW: 

    • Hypervisor: Any OSS/commercial hypervisor that supports VirtIO

    • Front-end Device Driver: Open Source

    • Back-end Device Driver: Proprietary for most of the case (QEMU has open source backend) 

  • How:

    • idea: break down to several PoCs with incremental features

      • step 1: common/basic feature only (only 1 guest VM, only simple virtio devices such as virtio-blk, virtio-net)

      • step 2: more advanced feature

  • Who:

    • option 1: voluntary implementation from members (PoC in the name of the company/community) → option 1 selected

      • Volunteer 1: OpenSynergy (@Mikhail Golubev (Deactivated) )

        • Hardware: LEGO Renesas Board (AGL Reference HW)

        • Hypervisor: COQOS Hypervisor

        • VM: 1 AGL Backend (HH 8.x) & 1 AGL Frontend (HH 8.x) => think about updating to Jellyfish

        • virtio devices: blk, net, input, gpu(2d), gpu(3d? → may be passthrough)

      • Volunteer 2: Linaro (@Former user (Deleted))

        • Hardware: 96Board

        • Hypervisor: Xen Hypervisor

        • VM: TBD

        • virtio devices

    • option 2: get funding support from Linux Foundation (PoC in the name of AGL community)

  • Potential Target Event:
    @Walt Miner to check if possible to present PoCs in the name of Virtualization EG (ALS, AMM)

    • 2020.12 AGL ALS → held virtually on December 2~4 (option selected. will attend in the form of virt-eg)

      • @Jerry, Zhao Jiancong to send a title and abstract for the talk to @Walt Miner  (by Sep 23, 2020)

    • 2021.1 CES2021 → AGL will not attend CES2021

    • 2021.3 AGL AMM

Update on AGL Virtualization White Paper

• Purpose:

  • A summary of virtio discussion in AGL Virtualization EG

  • To update original contents in the white paper published 2 years ago

  • To include new topics such as standardization in automotive virtualization (virtio) in the whitepaper

• Previous AGL Virtualization White Paper: https://www.automotivelinux.org/blog/2018/06/20/agl-publishes-virtualization-white-paper/

• Possible Topics:

  • Role of AGL in virtualization standardization (compared with other OSS promoting community such as GENIVI, OASIS)

  • Device Virtualization (VirtIO) Related

    • What is VirtIO and why it is important

    • How VirtIO can be used in automotive (uses cases in IC, IVI, Telematics)

    • Sample VirtIO-based architecture

    • Performance Indicator/Criteria for different virtual devices. Possible open source tools for the evaluation.

  • Future of Standardization in Virtualization of Automotive (such as virtio-backend standardization)

Status: Pending @Walt Miner  to find the editable version of previous whitepaper

VirtIO Frontend Integration In AGL

• Activity Leader: @Mikhail Golubev (Deactivated)

• Yocto layer to enable user to choose whether to use VirtIO or not.

• Introduce virtio-blk, net, console, random generator, gpu2d&3d in AGL K

  • release date: Feb 12, 2021 

  • release candidate 1: Nov 20, 2020 

  • release candidate 2: Dec 2, 2020 
    (ddl to include new feature in to AGL K is RC2)

• Introduce other standardized and upstream available virtio devices in AGL L

VirtIO Backend Standardization Discussion

Pending to find a volunteer to lead the activity