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Xen Hypervisor Embedded and automotive bare-metal platform

4.6

(13 ratings)
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Xen Hypervisor

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Overview
Benefits
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Solution Overview

Xen Hypervisor is a bare-metal platform built by EPAM Embedded and Automotive team around Xen Project Hypervisor for non-data center use cases (automotive, internet TV, mobile and other embedded systems) by providing a focal point within the Xen Project community and within the wider open source community. Primary activities of the team include:

  • Developing and upstreaming necessary changes to the Xen Project Hypervisor and Linux
  • Implementing new drivers--such as Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Human Interface Devices (HID) and other drivers needed for non-data center use cases--protocols, capabilities and functionalities needed for a complete automotive/embedded/mobile-virtualization stack
  • Upstreaming all necessary changes to support virtualization in Linux and Android operating systems, u-boot bootloader, OP-TEE trusted environment
  • Working with automotive industry groups and projects such as AGL and GENIVI

Benefits

Mature

Widely used by all major IaaS providers since its inception in 2003

Cost effective

No license costs to start project development

Feature rich

Huge set of server/data center computing features available for automotive

Features

Key features:

  • Type 1 (bare metal) hypervisor with flexible virtualization modes and strong security model​
  • Open source (Linux Foundation project),​ supported in OP-TEE, Linux kernel, u-boot and other communities​
  • In use since 2003 in general computing​ by Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers and in desktop and data center system software
  • Latest ARM and x86 cores support​
  • Extremely low defects density – 0.38 / 1000 LOC (analysis done with Coverity Scan tool for ARM)​
  • Multiple safety applications, including in avionics, aerospace, automotive and military industries

Extended guest domain functionality:​

  • Peripherals sharing for complex user scenarios​
  • Virtualization of GPUs and other co-processors​
  • TEE support for guest operating systems​

Power & Performance​:

  • Full system power management​
  • Real-time guest domain scheduling​
  • Heterogeneous multi-core scheduling support​
  • Functional Safety support​
  • FuSa SIG with all key community members

Customer Ratings & Reviews

4.6

Based on 13 votes

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Most recent reviews

January 23, 2022

I've been using Xen Hypervisor for a while now and it's been great. It's a bare-metal platform perfect for non-data center use cases like automotive and mobile. The Xen Project community is great too - very helpful and supportive. Overall, I'm very happy with Xen Hypervisor and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good bare-metal platform.

Author: Chase P.

1 user found this review helpful

June 17, 2021

Really flexible automotive tool

Xen Hypervisor is an incredibly powerful and flexible tool that has allowed me to virtualize my entire infrastructure with ease. The security model is also very strong, which is reassuring given the sensitive data that I'm dealing with.

Author: August Jennings

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Linux kernel

OP-TEE

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Android OS

Automotive Grade Linux OS

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