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VM '04 — Abstract
Pp. 1–11 of the Proceedings
A Virtual Machine Generator for Heterogeneous Smart Spaces
Doug Palmer, CSIRO ICT Centre
Abstract
Heterogenous smart spaces are networks of communicating, embedded resources and general-purpose computers that have a wide spread of power and capabilities. Devices can range from having less than a kilobyte of RAM to many megabytes.
Virtual machine techniques can be used to control some of the inherent complexity of a heterogeneous smart space by providing a common runtime environment. However, a suitably rich, single virtual machine implementation is unlikely to be able to operate in all environments.
By using a virtual machine generator and allowing virtual machines to be subsetted, it is possible to provide numerous virtual machines, each tailored to the capabilities of a class of resources.
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