The demo image, provided without support, is suitable to deploy on a laptop or on a server that meets the requirements outlined below. The Cisco IOS XRv Routeris hypervisor agnostic. The hypervisor presents the guest operating systems with a virtual operating platform and manages the execution of the guest operating systems. A computer on which a hypervisor is running one or more VMs is defined as a host machine. While each operating system appears to have the dedicated use of the host's processor, memory, and other resources the hypervisor controls and allocates only the required resources to each operating system and ensures that the operating systems (VMs) do not disrupt each other. It providesĪn efficient abstraction for hypervisors and a common set of I/O virtualizationĪ hypervisor, also called a virtual machine manager (VMM), is a piece of computer software, firmware, or hardware that creates and runs VMs.Ī hypervisor enables multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host machine. Intel E1000 Ethernet chips are provided in most modern hypervisors.Į1000 Drive is the only network driver supported for IOS XRv running on ESXi.Īn abstraction layer over devices in a paravirtualized hypervisor. Hypervisor and automatically detected by theĮ1000 and VirtIO drivers to pass the traffic to support a wide array ofĮ1000 Driver is a suite of Linux kernel drivers for all Intel EthernetĪdapters. Supports single CPU on a single VM in production deployment. To eight CPUs on a single VM in demonstration deployment. Support for the Cisco IOS XR Software feature set, including the manageability,Ĭontrol plane, routing, and forwarding features. Table 1 Cisco IOS XRv Router features and usages Features

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