The Linux Foundation released detailed information on ACRN, one of the open source projects, which is a management program designed for the Internet of Things and embedded devices. The project benefits from the contributions of Intel code and engineering, and its goal is to create a flexible and compact virtual machine management system. With a Linux-based service operating system, ACRN can run multiple guest operating systems simultaneously, making it an ideal choice for many scenarios.
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The Linux Foundation stated that the hypervisor and device models are built on the basis of “security-critical workloads,” and it is envisaged that ACRN will consolidate some IoT workloads onto a single platform. Although the project was provided as a powerful and flexible solution, the embedded developer community was invited to provide code to further expand and improve ACRN.
With the project ACRN, embedded developers can immediately use the new hypervisor options. ACRN is optimized for resource-constrained devices and focuses on isolating and giving priority to security-critical workloads, making the project suitable for many IoT use cases.
ACRN takes up very little space, partly because the hypervisor only needs 25,000 lines of code. Already there are companies from ADLINK, Aptiv, Intel, LG Electronics, and Neusoft, and there are likely to be more vendors joining this list.
