Introduction

Dragonball Sandbox is a light-weight virtual machine manager (VMM) based on Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), which is optimized for container workloads with:

• container image management and acceleration service
• flexible and high-performance virtual device drivers
• low CPU and memory overhead
• minimal startup time
• optimized concurrent startup speed

Dragonball Sandbox aims to provide a simple solution for the Kata Containers community. It is integrated into Kata 3.0 runtime as a built-in VMM and gives users an out-of-the-box Kata Containers experience without complex environment setup and configuration process.

Getting Started

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Documentation

• Device: Device Document
• vCPU: vCPU Document
• API: API Document
• Upcall: Upcall Document
• dbs_acpi: dbs_acpi Document
• dbs_address_space: dbs_address_space Document
• dbs_allocator: dbs_allocator Document
• dbs_arch: dbs_arch Document
• dbs_boot: dbs_boot Document
• dbs_device: dbs_device Document
• dbs_interrupt: dbs_interrput Document
• dbs_legacy_devices: dbs_legacy_devices Document
• dbs_tdx: dbs_tdx Document
• dbs_upcall: dbs_upcall Document
• dbs_utils: dbs_utils Document
• dbs_virtio_devices: dbs_virtio_devices Document
• dbs_pci: dbc_pci Document

Currently, the documents are still actively adding. You could see the official documentation page for more details.

Supported Architectures

• x86-64
• aarch64

Supported Kernel

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Acknowledgement

Part of the code is based on the Cloud Hypervisor project, crosvm project and Firecracker project. They are all rust written virtual machine managers with advantages on safety and security.

Dragonball sandbox is designed to be a VMM that is customized for Kata Containers and we will focus on optimizing container workloads for Kata ecosystem. The focus on the Kata community is what differentiates us from other rust written virtual machines.

License

Dragonball is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.