What virtualization can do for maintenance: the HSM case

Abstract

In the automotive sector, one easily looks into two decades of software maintenance at the vehicle level. During this time, either the processor-specific version of the potentially complex operating system (OS) kernel in use has to be patched or completely exchanged. To eliminate this maintenance effort, the presented work exploits device virtualization by using the Secure Monitor Call (SMC) interface of ARM [6] and the microkernel-based virtualization scheme of L4Re [2, 3] in its commercial variant EB corbos Hypervisor [1]. This is an alternative to the common approach based on Virtio [8].