Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains
Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
The Xen Project, home of the open-source hypervisor, has decided it’s time to get serious about formal safety.
That’s not an admission of security woes, but a push to ensure the hypervisor complies with formal safety standards like IEC-61508, which defines the processes and practices used in software that runs in devices and settings that could conceivably harm humans.
Xen has in recent years emphasized work to make its code more suitable to run in embedded workloads and devices like cars. The project points to the fact that modern vehicles rely on software for tasks as diverse as emergency braking and infotainment systems, and manufacturers’ preference to offer all such services with as few physical computers as possible. Virtualizing workloads in a car means a glitchy navigation app is isolated and...
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