New hypervisor system for use on future missions

Virtual machine technology is a secure and efficient way to build partitioned systems. A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine monitor, is a layer of software that enables several independent execution environments or partitions to be run in a single computer. A GSTP activity with Teletel, France, has developed the XtratuM Q for SPARCv8 (XM-Q for short) – a bare metal hypervisor intended to provide several guest virtual machines allowing the execution of multiples software systems on a same hardware host machine.

The activity matured the XtratuM hypervisor and tested it on real hardware. A follow-up GSTP activity is already planned for the qualification of XtratuM for Multicore Processors.