Virtualization

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Partition where you can - Virtualize where you have to

VIRTUALIZATION AND HYPERVISORS

Virtualization is an industry-changing software technology that is rapidly transforming the enterprise, desktop and embedded computer landscape. The best-known form of virtualization is hypervisor, also commonly known as virtualization manager (VM), a software technology that allows multiple operating system instances to run concurrently on a single platform.

MARKET DRIVERS

The rapid adoption of virtualization is fueled by:

• Expanding hardware capabilities and the deployment of multi-core architectures
• Effort to control cost and simplify management through consolidation of hardware resources
• Improved security, reliability and independence afforded by hypervisor architectures
• The need to run complex, OS-dependent applications in different hardware or OS environments

THE TRADITIONAL HYPERVISOR APPROACH

The traditional approach introduces a host operating system and VM software layer to manage task processing, load balancing and hardware access of guest operating systems. However, the overhead introduced by this method makes it unsuitable for embedded applications where real-time response and determinism are hard requirements.

SERVING EMBEDDED MARKETS - MICROWARE HYPERVISOR

The solution is to employ a specialized hypervisor architecture that will "Partition where you can - Virtualize where you have to". Enter Microware Hypervisor from RadiSys.

• Intel multi-core support
• Hard real-time performance
• Independent OS operation
• Inter-processor Communication
• Inter-processor Interrupt
• PCIe Message Signaled Interrupt
• Exclusive I/O assignments
• Hyper-threading support