Software Development for Embedded Multi-core Systems

Chapter 9. Virtualization and Partitioning

Jamel Tayeb

Key Points

• Virtualization provides several capabilities including workload isolation, workload consolidation, and workload migration.

• Virtualization and partitioning combined with multi-core processors enable consolidation of embedded applications while still meeting the performance demands of each application.

• Virtualization of IA-32 architecture processors must overcome challenges involving privilege management, memory management, interrupt management, and exception management.

• VirtualLogix™ VLX for the Network Infrastructure is an example product that takes advantage of virtualization and multi-core processors.

Overview

The very existence of this chapter provides evidence of the industry’s continually ...