The role of virtualization in embedded systems

• DOI: 10.1145/1435458.1435461
• Publication Date: 2008-10-14T17:49:52Z
• Authors: Gernot Heiser
• Keywords: Popularity; Service virtualization; Application virtualization

System virtualization, which enjoys immense popularity in the enterprise and personal computing spaces, is recently gaining significant interest embedded domain. Starting from a comparison of key characteristics systems systems, we will examine difference motivation for use system virtual machines, resulting differences requirements technology. We find that these are quite substantial, virtualization unable to meet special systems. Instead, more general operating-systems technologies required, support as case. argue high-performance microkernels, specifically L4, technology provides good match next-generation