Hardware virtualization for Haiku’s QEMU port

This Google Summer of Code project aimed to bring hardware virtualization to Haiku by porting NVMM, a hypervisor that already has QEMU support, into Haiku from DragonFlyBSD. This would make using Haiku as their primary operating system a viable approach for more people.

This branch showcases the project status at the end of Google Summer of Code 2024 (final report). For further development see the hrev58265 branch.

Goals

• NVMM driver ported to Haiku (VMX backend only).
• QEMU capable of accelerating virtual machines through NVMM.

Links

• Google Summer of Code proposal
• Project thread on Haiku forums
• Project page at GSoC archive

Blog posts:

• [GSoC 2024] Hardware virtualization for Haiku’s QEMU port
• [GSoC 2024] Hardware virtualization: Progress Report #1
• [GSoC 2024] Hardware Virtualization: Progress Report #2
• [GSoC 2024] Hardware Virtualization: Final Report