20 June 2008

Wind River Takes Virtualization Onboard

Wind River Systems, Inc., a member of the ARM Connected Community, is throwing its hat in the virtualization ring with a multicore software solution it said will help companies solve complex business challenges by taking advantage of multicore processing and virtualization.

Virtualization presents the opportunity for device manufacturers to reduce hardware costs and power consumption, leverage existing intellectual property (IP) and innovate by adding new capabilities to existing devices, the company explained.

As part of the move, Wind River confirmed that it will introduce a scalable hypervisor that will enable virtualization for devices across a broad range of vertical markets, including networking, industrial and consumer devices. The ability to virtualize hardware allows multiple operating environments to share underlying processing cores, memory and other hardware resources.  The solution is expected to support a number of platforms, including ARM.

Wind River's hypervisor will be tightly integrated with VxWorks and Wind River Linux, and can support a variety of other operating systems. It will be available for early access in August 2008.