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Bruce Ashfield 358452b4e5 kvmtool: update to -tip
Bumping kvmtool to latest, which comprises the following commits:

    7ad32e5 net/uip: Avoid deadlock in uip_tcp_socket_free()
    c4e9b3a virtio/pci: explicit zero unknown devices features
    ba6830e vfio: include libgen.h (for musl compatibility)
    1117dbc riscv: Allow including extensions in the min CPU type using command-line
    a50e8d8 riscv: Add cpu-type command-line option
    d47ad01 riscv: Include single-letter extensions in isa_info_arr[]
    b6e9f38 riscv: Fix no params with nodefault segfault
    1132ace riscv: Make system suspend time configurable
    fcc3160 riscv: Add SBI system suspend support
    0641ed8 riscv: Add Ziccrse extension support
    8be1c78 riscv: Add Zabha extension support
    a988086 riscv: Add Svvptc extension support
    2ab7f9f Sync kernel UAPI headers with v6.14
    ad9b731 util: Fix update_headers.sh after removal of 32-bit Arm code
    d410d9a arm64: Get rid of the 'arm-common' include directory
    0a10c48 arm64: Rename top-level directory
    4cd7b87 arm64: Move asm headers
    f8a539a arm64: Move remaining kvm/* headers
    7113578 arm64: Combine kvm-config-arch.h
    65878da arm64: Merge kvm-cpu.c
    14e8c42 arm64: Combine kvm.c
    5188575 arm64: Move arm64-only features into main directory
    329fe56 Drop support for 32-bit arm
    e48563f riscv: Add Ssnpm extension support

Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
2025-12-01 23:57:04 -05:00
classes image-oci-unmoci: preserve file modes 2025-01-17 19:17:10 +00:00
conf conf/versions: update xen default to 4.21 2025-11-21 00:10:46 -05:00
docs podman: Add support for rootless mode 2022-07-15 17:11:58 -04:00
dynamic-layers kernel: drop 6.6 support 2025-02-11 23:19:51 +00:00
files fs-perms-nagios.txt: add perms conf file 2018-09-06 12:45:17 -04:00
lib/oeqa/runtime/cases xtf: add testimage integration to run XTF test cases in OEQA 2021-09-02 16:36:23 -04:00
recipes-containers lxc: Fix build with musl 2025-12-01 23:49:04 -05:00
recipes-core packagegroup-container: fix do_package_wrte_rpm issue in multilib build 2025-07-16 14:48:19 -04:00
recipes-demo demo: adapt to UNPACKDIR changes 2025-06-25 22:56:41 -04:00
recipes-devtools grpc-go 1.59.0+git: Ignore CVE-2024-7246 2025-09-03 21:40:45 -04:00
recipes-extended kvmtool: update to -tip 2025-12-01 23:57:04 -05:00
recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver global: overrides syntax conversion 2021-08-02 17:17:53 -04:00
recipes-kernel kernel/6.17: add support 2025-10-30 13:19:00 -04:00
recipes-networking openvswitch: small ptest fix adapt to UNPACKDIR changes 2025-07-20 22:36:08 -04:00
scripts scripts: wic plugin bootimg-biosxen drop helper to reuse bootimg_pcbios 2025-07-31 13:34:50 -04:00
wic xen: use bzImage for boot (instead of vmlinux) 2024-03-21 23:15:13 +00:00
.gitignore buildah: add seccomp and ipv6 to REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES 2023-04-12 13:10:11 -04:00
COPYING.MIT Initial meta-xen layer documentation. 2012-06-21 15:51:11 -06:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add xtf and the raspberry pi dynamic layer for Xen 2021-12-16 21:45:00 -05:00
meta-virt-roadmap.txt docs: roadmap: add missing workflow items 2019-10-28 11:56:10 -04:00
README.md docs: update README with improved layer description 2025-09-25 12:47:13 -04:00
SECURITY.md docs: add SECURITY.md and rename README.md 2023-11-06 16:21:12 +00:00

meta-virtualization

The meta-virtualization layer is the authoritative resource for virtualization technologies in OpenEmbedded / Yocto built distributions. It provides support or both hypervisor-based virtualization (such as KVM, Xen, and QEMU) and system-level virtualization (Linux containers), along with the host and guest technologies required to build complete solutions ranging from embedded systems to full deep CNCF stack deployments.

The bbappend files for some recipes (e.g. linux-yocto) in this layer need to have 'virtualization' in DISTRO_FEATURES to have effect. To enable them, add in configuration file the following line.

DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " virtualization"

If meta-virtualization is included, but virtualization is not enabled as a distro feature a warning is printed at parse time:

You have included the meta-virtualization layer, but
'virtualization' has not been enabled in your DISTRO_FEATURES. Some bbappend files
may not take effect. See the meta-virtualization README for details on enabling
virtualization support.

If you know what you are doing, this warning can be disabled by setting the following variable in your configuration:

SKIP_META_VIRT_SANITY_CHECK = 1

Depending on your use case, there are other distro features in meta-virtualization that may also be enabled:

  • xen: enables xen functionality in various packages (kernel, libvirt, etc)
  • kvm: enables KVM configurations in the kernel and autoloads modules
  • k8s: enables kubernetes configurations in the kernel, tools and configuration
  • aufs: enables aufs support in docker and linux-yocto
  • x11: enable xen and libvirt functionality related to x11
  • selinux: enables functionality in libvirt and lxc
  • systemd: enable systemd services and unit files (for recipes for support)
  • sysvinit: enable sysvinit scripts (for recipes with support)
  • seccomp: enable seccomp support for packages that have the capability.

Dependencies

This layer depends on:

URI: git://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core.git branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default

URI: git://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded.git branch: master revision: HEAD layers: meta-oe meta-networking meta-filesystems meta-python

Required for Xen XSM policy: URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-selinux branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default

Required for Ceph: URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-cloud-services branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default

Required for cri-o: URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-selinux branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default

Community / Collaboration

Repository: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-virtualization/ Mailing list: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/meta-virtualization IRC: libera.chat #meta-virt channel

Maintenance

Send pull requests, patches, comments or questions to meta-virtualization@lists.yoctoproject.org

Maintainer: Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfield@gmail.com see MAINTAINERS for more specific information

When sending single patches, please using something like: $ git send-email -1 -M --to meta-virtualization@lists.yoctoproject.org --subject-prefix='meta-virtualization][PATCH'

License

All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code included in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in each recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated.