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SmartVisor: towards an efficient and compatible virtualization platform for embedded system

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Yunhong JiangAuthors Info & Claims

IIES '09: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Isolation and Integration in Embedded Systems

Pages 37 - 41

https://doi.org/10.1145/1519130.1519137

Published: 31 March 2009 Publication History

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Embedded systems are making rapid changes and becoming increasingly sophisticated. To make full use of all the hardware resources on the system, multi OS environments and virtualization are both feasible ways but either needs lots of porting efforts or suffers performance degradation without hardware support for virtualization. We propose a virtualization platform for embedded system named the SmartVisor to provide a PC-compatible layer for guest OS, and it gains native-like performance while keeping zero-modification to guest OS by leveraging KVM and Intel's Atom embedded processor. SmartVisor realizes device pass-through by identity mapping of the guest memory and implements a Direct-Shadow mechanism to get rid of majority part of VMExit overhead. Measurement result shows the benefits of SmartVisor and deeper study of host-swapping reveals the potential advantages of SmartVisor on embedded systems.

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Aguiar AMoratelli CSartori MHessel F(2014)Adding virtualization support in MIPS 4Kc-based MPSoCsFifteenth International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design10.1109/ISQED.2014.6783310(84-90)Online publication date: Mar-2014
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2014.6783310
Aguiar AMoratelli CSartori MHessel F(2013)A virtualization approach for MIPS-based MPSoCsInternational Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)10.1109/ISQED.2013.6523674(611-618)Online publication date: Mar-2013
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Index Terms

SmartVisor: towards an efficient and compatible virtualization platform for embedded system
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
  2. Real-time systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Embedded software
      2. Real-time systems software

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DOI:10.1145/1519130

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2660540.2661012
Aguiar AMoratelli CSartori MHessel F(2014)Adding virtualization support in MIPS 4Kc-based MPSoCsFifteenth International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design10.1109/ISQED.2014.6783310(84-90)Online publication date: Mar-2014
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2014.6783310
Aguiar AMoratelli CSartori MHessel F(2013)A virtualization approach for MIPS-based MPSoCsInternational Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)10.1109/ISQED.2013.6523674(611-618)Online publication date: Mar-2013
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2013.6523674
Aguiar AMoratelli CSartori MHessel F(2012)Hardware-assisted virtualization targeting MIPS-based SoCs2012 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP)10.1109/RSP.2012.6380683(2-8)Online publication date: Oct-2012
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