The “hypervisor” software provides a virtual network connection that allows applications to exchange data between operating systems. As with a conventional Ethernet interface, this is done using standard network protocols. Instead of a cable, there is a reserved memory area that is not assigned to either operating system.
Users configure the hypervisor and allocate hardware resources in B&R’s Automation Studio development environment. The configurations are defined separately for each system, providing flexibility as to how the resources are used. Unlike previous parallelisation systems which have been tailored to specific versions of Windows, the new hypervisor is independent of the operating systems being used.