AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro
Brendan Gregg
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The AMI and boot are now HVM.
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