L.: Real-time virtual machines

This paper tackles the problem of guaranteeing appro-priate timeliness guarantees to real-time applications run-ning in a virtualised Operating System. Preliminary exper-imental results are presented, highlighting how the appro-priate use of well-established real-time scheduling strate-gies may be effective in facing with this challenging issue. 1 Introduction and related work Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are moving towards a new generation of business models for service provisioning, where connectivity will represent, for users, only the basic point of access to an infinity o