What is New in ghaf-23.09

New supported target hardware:
- NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX
- Polarfire Icicle Kit
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11
Modularization of the Ghaf framework: Ghaf as Library: Templates.
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX Ethernet passthrough.
Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 11:
- Graphics passthrough to GUI VM.
- Launching Application VMs through GUI VM (Chromium, Gala, and Zathura).
- Paravirtualized audio.
- Webcam passthrough.
- Touchpad passthrough.
Cross-compilation of the ARM targets (NVIDIA) on the x86 server (with demo applications excluded).

Bug Fixes

Fixed bugs that were in the ghaf-23.06 release:

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin:
- Cannot open Windows launcher via shortcut or command line.
No Windows launcher in x86 build.

Issue	Status	Comments
Chromium App VM does not boot up on X1	In Progress	Intermittent timing issue, under investigation.
The GALA app does not work	In Progress	Will be fixed in the next release.
Shutdown or reboot of Lenovo X1 takes a lot of time (7 minutes)	In Progress	Advice: be patient or, if in hurry, press power key for 15 sec.
Copy and paste text from or to Chromium AppVM does not work	In Progress
Element cannot be opened on NVIDIA AGX Orin HW on the host	Will not Fix	Applications on the host will not be supported in the longer term.
Cannot move the GALA/Element window by dragging with the mouse	In Progress	Workaround: press Windows key when moving the mouse.
Personal security keys cannot be created	In Progress	Workaround: use another device to create security keys.
No audio in a USB headset when running the application on the host	Will not Fix	Audio on a host is not supported.
Cannot log in to the Element chat with a Google account	In Progress	Workaround for x86: create a user specifically for Element.
Windows launcher application does not work	In Progress	Workaround: launch Windows VM from the command line.

There are no specific requirements for the environment with this release.

Download the required image and use the following instructions:

Release Image	Build and Run
ghaf-23.09_Generic_x86.tar.xz	Running Ghaf Image for x86 Computer
ghaf-23.09_Lenovo_X1_Gen11.tar.xz	Running Ghaf Image for Lenovo X1
ghaf-23.09_Nvidia_Orin_AGX.tar.xz, ghaf-23.09_Nvidia_Orin_NX.tar.xz	Ghaf Image for NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX
ghaf-23.09_PolarFire_RISC-V.tar.xz	Building Ghaf Image for Microchip Icicle Kit