Santosh's drafts

30 April 2020

High Level Architecture of IBM Server Platforms

by linuxppc

A better rendered version of the original wiki page

MSR_{SE} MSR_{HV} MSR_{PR} State
0 0 0 Unsecure VM kernel
0 0 1 Unsecure VM application
0 1 0 Hypervisor
1 0 0 Secure VM kernel
1 0 1 Secure VM guest
1 1 0 Ultravisor (hcall)
1 2 0 Ultravisor (ultracall)

Bare Metal/PowerNV

Bare Metal

PowerNV with Ultravisor

With Ultravisor

PowerVM/phyp

phyp

tags: powerpc - hypervisor