Wind River Hypervisor Essentials

The Wind River® Hypervisor Essentials course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to use Wind River Hypervisor and develop multi-OS, secure and safe systems.

After this course, participants will be able to perform the following:

• Design, implement, optimize, and debug Wind River Hypervisor–based systems featuring various combinations of guest operating systems
• Design safe and secure systems with Wind River Hypervisor Safety Profile
• Configure Wind River Linux, VxWorks®, VxWorks Cert, Windows, and Red Hat operating systems to run in a virtualized environment with efficient inter-guest communication
• Bring up multiple operating systems on Intel®, Freescale, and ARM architectures
• Design systems that share resources, exchange data, synchronize tasks running on different partitions, and mix different levels of criticality

• Wind River Hypervisor 2.0
• VxWorks 6.9
• VxWorks Cert 6.6.4
• Wind River Linux 4.3
• Wind River Simics 4.6

• Application engineers
• System integrators and architects

Day 1

Introduction to Virtualization

(An optional prelude lecture for engineers who have not been exposed to multi-core embedded virtualization)

• What is virtualization?
• History of virtualization
• Advantages of virtualization
• Why multi-core loves virtualization
• Device market requirements for virtualization

Wind River Hypervisor

• Architectural design
• Platform variants
• Contexts, threads, and virtual boards
• Basic interfaces and capabilities
• Booting
• LAB: Wind River Hypervisor hello world

Configuring a VxWorks Guest

• Workbench projects
• XML configuration
• LAB: Building a VxWorks guest

Day 2

Configuring a Linux Guest

• Linux guest platform project
• XML configuration
• Device trees
• LAB: Building a Wind River Linux guest

Configuring Wind River Hypervisor

• Workbench Hypervisor integration project
• XML configuration
• Hypervisor device types
• LAB: Building the Hypervisor

SMP Guests on Wind River Hypervisor

• Introduction
• Configuring SMP guests

Configuring an Unmodified Guest

• Windows
• Red Hat
• VxWorks

Inter-guest OS Communication

• Introduction to MIPC
• MIPC configuration and capabilities

Inter-guest OS Communication Programming API

• Introduction
• AF_MIPC
• Kernel API
• Examples
• LAB: Configuring a virtual board application (VBA) and MIPC
• LAB: Debugging Linux and VxWorks guests

Day 3

Sharing a Serial Port Between Guests

• Multiplexed virtual serial device

Configuring a VxWorks Cert Guest

• Workbench projects
• XML configuration

Safety Profile

• Wind River Hypervisor profiles
• Safety Profile
• Frame scheduler
• Safe IPC
• LAB: Configuring a Cert-safe MIPC Hypervisor

Wind River Hypervisor Shared Memory Networking

• Virtual switch
• Safe IPC transport

Managing Guests

• Fault recovery
• Software upgrades
• Dynamic virtual boards
• LAB: Monitoring virtual boards
• LAB: Adding and using a custom manager

Hypervisor Performance

• Scheduling considerations
• Interrupt considerations

Wind River Hypervisor for Intel Architecture

• Intel VT
• Intel VT-d
• MSI
• NUMA
• Intel 64-bit Hypervisor
• Shadow paging
• PCI

Wind River Hypervisor for ARM Architecture

• TrustZone
• Privileged guests
• Direct interrupts
• LAB: Adding a guest device driver

Prerequisite Skills

• One year of C programming
• Functional knowledge of UNIX
• Basic VxWorks API knowledge
• Real-time programming basics

• This three-day expert-led course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
• Attendees use Wind River Hypervisor, VxWorks, VxWorks Cert, Wind River Linux, and Simics to gain experience with the topics presented.
• Participants examine and exercise simulated network topologies in hands-on labs.
• Participants receive individual guidance from an expert engineer who has extensive experience with Wind River technologies.

• VxWorks 6.x Asymmetric Multiprocessing
• VxWorks 6.x Symmetric Multiprocessing