Real-time hypervisor now supports Windows 8 and 64-bit operating systems
The newly released Version 4.0.03 of the RTS Hypervisor, facilitating deployment of multiple independent operating systems (OS) on a single Intel x86 based computer, now provides the possibility to run 64-Bit Operating Systems completely unmodified in parallel to other operating systems like an RTOS. By partitioning processor cores, memory and I/O devices into individual, virtually independent computers, the RTS Hypervisor facilitates hardware consolidation and helps to drastically reduce overall system cost without trade-offs. Medical devices or machines that currently use an embedded hardware board in parallel to a computer executing e.g. Microsoft Windows can now safely be merged into a single Intel multi-core hardware, greatly reducing design-, manufacturing- and maintenance costs.
Other combinations of executing multiple of the same or different operating systems are simply a matter of available CPU cores. Executing three instances of the same RTOS in parallel to Microsoft Windows on a Quad-Core processor is just one of the many possibilities the RTS Hypervisor offers.
Due to strict separation of the hardware partitions, individual operating systems can boot independently in a user defined order. Even rebooting an operating system while others keep running is possible with the RTS Hypervisor. For easy communication between operating systems, shared memory as well as an Event System and a TCP/IP virtual network are available. Out of the box, the RTS Hypervisor currently supports all major operating systems used on x86 and all current Intel x86 platform, ranging from small Atom based board to high-end server boards.
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