Adding Third-Party Hypervisor to Android Virtualization Framework

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Adds support for the Gunyah EL2 hypervisor into Android Virtualization Framework by landing a new CrosVM hypervisor crate and a Linux kernel driver (upstream patches in progress). Gunyah (used four years) adds host‑only device emulation, stolen‑time accounting and executes PVM firmware verified with a boot certificate chain to start protected VMs. Upcoming work targets guest memory control and dynamic memory growth, debugging via DTBO/ADB, and device sanitization via a privileged secure VM; initial features already run.

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1. 0:00Introduction to AVF and GYA
2. 2:08Hypervisor requirements for AVF
3. 3:54Changes to support GYA in AVF
4. 6:20Upstreaming and future plans
5. 7:24Q&A session

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