Date: 26/10/2010
New embedded hypervisor from Wind River support Freescale's QorIQ and Intel's Xeon
Wind River has introduced a new version of Wind River Hypervisor, a real-time, embedded hypervisor for virtualization, which adds support for Freescale QorIQ P2 and P4 platform series and Intel Xeon processor 5600 series. Wind River plans to further broaden its hardware support for Wind River Hypervisor with multi-core ARM in 2011.
Wind River Hypervisor is optimized for and integrated with the latest versions of VxWorks, Wind River Linux, Wind River Workbench and Wind River Test Management.
"Adoption of multi-core and embedded virtualization offers opportunities to leverage existing software in the form of legacy, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and open source as well as improve the reliability of systems," said Mark Hermeling, product line manager for embedded virtualization at Wind River. "We're seeing a notable increase in virtualization demand across many of our key embedded market segments. To address this demand, we're advancing the technology and growing industry support of Wind River Hypervisor through our strong ties within the embedded ecosystem and plan to accelerate our pace of innovation even further."
Other new features and benefits of the latest Wind River Hypervisor listed by Wind River release include:
2. The ability to run unmodified guest operating systems on e500mc and Intel processors, which reduces the cost for consolidation of existing systems
3. A flexible device management layer, which offers fine-grained tuning of device access and sharing, thereby delivering flexibility with maximum performance
3. Built-in capabilities for software upgrades, allowing customers to easily update the operating systems running inside virtual machines
Wind River says Companies are increasingly looking to leverage the power of multi-core processors and embedded virtualization, yet they often struggle with the first step in implementing multi-core into their product lines.
Both Wind River Hypervisor 1.2 and the Wind River Multi-core Adoption Package are available now.