I hear more and more about virtualization every day. It's obviously becoming more prominent in the life of an embedded developer. Virtualization lets developers consolidate their hardware, thereby reducing system cost, power, and size. In fact, I blogged the other day about how one of the key OS vendors (Green Hills) recently started up a business unit solely devoted to virtualization.   So I was intrigues when I saw this article written by Kenton Williston. In the article, he explains the...Read More

The practice of virtualization has been around for more than a decade, but who's to say which of the three frontrunner methods - binary translation (or runtime handling of system behavior/control-sensitive instructions); OS-assisted (also called para-virtualization); or hardware-assisted (also known as full virtualization) - is best? Or is there a best? While some continue to rely on binary translation as the de facto method, others might think that either para-virtualization or hardware-assist...Read More