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Seems hypervisor is still on main CPU: See figure 2 (2017 nitro architecture)
by justicezyx 6y ago
Seems hypervisor is still on main CPU:
See figure 2 (2017 nitro architecture)
- _msw_ 6y agoDisclosure: I work at Amazon on building infrastructure for AWS For the bare metal instance configurations (where the instance size type in ".metal"), there is no hypervisor running on the processor.
- justicezyx 6y agoI cannot find docs sating nitro has any general purpose chip to run a hyper visor to manage the VMs, how customer vm get launched and managed from outside the physical host?
- _msw_ 6y agoThe management of the physical host itself (including launching and terminating customer instances when running in bare metal mode) is the responsibility of a component of our server called the Nitro controller.