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Add support for firecracker Hypervisor #282

@mcastelino

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@mcastelino

Add support for firecracker in addition to QEMU as a supported hypervisor in Kata.

This will require a few changes and additions to Kata components

Runtime

  • Making multiqueue optional for network interfaces
    network: Don't assume multiple queues support runtime#1027

  • Adding support for the firecracker API

  • Actual implementation of the hypervisor interface

  • Adding support to boot from disk (vs nvdimm or initramfs)

  • Adding support for virtio-mmio type devices

  • Supporting gRPC based copy of files from host to VM

Kernel

  • Updating the Kata kernel configuration

Packaging

  • Packaging of the rootfs as a disk in a firecracker friendly format
  • Supporting a debug console over vsock (to aid debugging)

Agent

  • Adding support for virtio-mmio type devices in the runtime
  • Supporting gRPC based copy of files from host to VM

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