TY - CONF A1 - Ramsauer, Ralf A1 - Kiszka, Jan A1 - Lohmann, Daniel A1 - Mauerer, Wolfgang T1 - Look Mum, no VM Exits! (Almost) T2 - Proceedings of the 13th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT '17) N2 - Multi-core CPUs are a standard component in many modern embedded systems. Their virtualisation extensions enable the isolation of services, and gain popularity to implement mixed-criticality or otherwise split systems. We present Jailhouse, a Linux-based, OS-agnostic partitioning hypervisor that uses novel architectural approaches to combine Linux, a powerful general-purpose system, with strictly isolated special-purpose components. Our design goals favour simplicity over features, establish a minimal code base, and minimise hypervisor activity. Direct assignment of hardware to guests, together with a deferred initialisation scheme, offloads any complex hardware handling and bootstrapping issues from the hypervisor to the general purpose OS. The hypervisor establishes isolated domains that directly access physical resources without the need for emulation or paravirtualisation. This retains, with negligible system overhead, Linux's feature-richness in uncritical parts, while frugal safety and real-time critical workloads execute in isolated, safe domains. KW - FOS: Computer and information sciences KW - Operating Systems (cs.OS) Y1 - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3677 UR - https://ospert2017.uni.lu/ ER -