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by transpute 259 days ago
On HP business PCs, Xen's microkernel architecture was extended for copy-on-write nested virtualization microVMs (VM per browser tab or HTTP connection) and UEFI-in-VM, https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2018/speaker/pratt/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42282053#42286147

Imminent unification of Android and ChromeOS will likely use a similar h/w nested-virt architecture based on L0 pKVM + L1 KVM hypervisors on Arm devices.

Honda is using Xen, "How to accelerate Software Defined Vehicle" (2025), https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/xensummit2025/93/HowTo...