Firecracker v1.4.0
Added
- Added support for custom CPU templates allowing users to adjust vCPU features
exposed to the guest via CPUID, MSRs and ARM registers. - Introduced V1N1 static CPU template for ARM to represent Neoverse V1 CPU
as Neoverse N1. - Added support for the
virtio-rng
entropy device. The device is optional. A
single device can be enabled per VM using the/entropy
endpoint. - Added a
cpu-template-helper
tool for assisting with creating and managing
custom CPU templates.
Changed
- Set FDP_EXCPTN_ONLY bit (CPUID.7h.0:EBX[6]) and ZERO_FCS_FDS bit
(CPUID.7h.0:EBX[13]) in Intel's CPUID normalization process.
Fixed
- Fixed feature flags in T2S CPU template on Intel Ice Lake.
- Fixed CPUID leaf 0xb to be exposed to guests running on AMD host.
- Fixed a performance regression in the jailer logic for closing open file
descriptors. Related to:
#3542. - A race condition that has been identified between the API thread and the VMM
thread due to a misconfiguration of theapi_event_fd
. - Fixed CPUID leaf 0x1 to disable perfmon and debug feature on x86 host.
- Fixed passing through cache information from host in CPUID leaf 0x80000006.
- Fixed the T2S CPU template to set the RRSBA bit of the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
MSR to 1 in accordance with an Intel microcode update. - Fixed the T2CL CPU template to pass through the RSBA and RRSBA bits of the
IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR from the host in accordance with an Intel microcode
update. - Fixed passing through cache information from host in CPUID leaf 0x80000005.
- Fixed the T2A CPU template to disable SVM (nested virtualization).
- Fixed the T2A CPU template to set EferLmsleUnsupported bit
(CPUID.80000008h:EBX[20]), which indicates that EFER[LMSLE] is not supported.