Wind River Hypervisor 1.1

As you would expect from a market leader like Wind River, we have been busy, extremely busy. Busy with talking to customers and helping them define how they plan to adopt multicore and virtualization in their roadmaps, but also busy with progressing our own roadmap.

Today we are announcing Wind River Hypervisor 1.1, with added support for the Intel Nehalem micro architecture (i5, i7 and Xeon 55xx), support for VxWorks 6.8 and Wind River Linux 3.0.2, additional inter-board communication facilities and On-Chip Debugging Support. The official press release is here.

The release contains additional support for Intel, but QorIQ and other architectures are on their way too! As I mentioned before, 2010 is going to be an exciting year for virtualization for embedded systems.

Two things that I want to point out in this release:

• Virtualization on it's own is only part of the solution. This release is part of a complete, integrated solution. It works out-of-the-box with VxWorks, Wind River Linux, Workbench and On-Chip Debugging. Documentation and examples are provided, it is easy to get any configuration up and running quickly and without hassle. 
• Debugging and analysis is important and often ignored when talking about multicore and virtualization. The previous release already supported debugging and analysis of individual virtual boards. However, in complex multicore systems you often want to stop the entire system to observe state across virtual board and processing cores. The new integration between On-Chip Debugging and the Wind River Hypervisor provides that capability. See the demonstration video below.

Feel free to shoot your Wind River contact or myself an email if you want more information about this release, or want to discuss how you could use multicore and virtualization in your product lines.