The Linux 3.9 kernel will get support for Goldfish, an Android emulator in which a virtual cpu is available. Goldfish is developed by developers at Google and can be used for software testing before a device is geflasht.
Developer Ingo Molnar has a pull request for the x86 version of the Linux kernel were submitted for the support of the Goldfish emulator. It is through strong on Qemu similar code for a virtual cpu emulated, also known as ‘Goldfish’ mentioned by the developers at Google. The source code is freely available and is by Android-developers used to test code. By adding it to the Linux-kernel is easier to virtual Goldfish-cpu to switch.
Molnar also has a pull request submitted for support of the latest version of Microsoft’s virtualization hypervisor Hyper-V. This new hypervisor is used in Windows 8 and has a new interrupt model. Furthermore, the x86 edition of the Linux 3.9 kernel also get support for SGI Ultraviolet System 3, a platform for supercomputing.