VIRTIO was originally developed for enterprise virtualization workloads and cloud computing that make high demands on data processing performance.

With the increasing amount of data driven workloads in vehicles, OpenSynergy sees a perfect fit in VIRTIO for the automotive industry.

OpenSynergy is an active member of the OASIS consortium and the OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Technical Committee to expand the scope of the open standards in the automotive domain. Its automotive expertise will extend the existing VIRTIO standard to meet automotive requirements.

Google is also a member of the OASIS consortium. As there are missing automotive-specific VIRTIO devices, the two companies are working within the OASIS consortium to close the gap.

Google and OpenSynergy haved developed a VirtIO standards-based reference implementation for Android Automotive OS as a guest virtual machine, together with the silicon vendor Qualcomm. 

OpenSynergy drives the acceptance of VIRTIO as a standard to be used in the automotive industry.