ACRN Future Development Ideas & Concepts

Introduction

The intent for this wiki page is to capture the ideas and requirements from everyone on what would be useful next to implement in ACRN. The list below does not indicate that there is any engineering commitment behind those, nor does it even indicate that it is feasible. What we want to achieve is to capture those ideas, see who is interested in (co-)developing them and hopefully see some being implemented over time.

Key themes for 2021

There are some key themes actively pursued at present:

1. Investigate and implement nested virtualization
2. Improve the Out-of-the-Box Experience (OOBE)
3. Improved the Developer eXperience (DX)
4. Code clean-up and modularization

Other areas that are of interest (some captured via the mailing list) include:

• Increase number of VMs supported by ACRN
• Support for new processor families (e.g. Xeon) and architectures (e.g. ARM)
• Support for USB Serial Port
• Best off-the-shelf HW for ACRN