The availability of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), the pressing demand for connectivity and increasingly complex and content-rich infotainment systems, have had, as first consequence, a considerable increase in data traffic and in the demand for solutions capable of ensuring high throughput and low latency. Among these techno- logical advancements, the adoption of Ethernet as a communication protocol within automotive systems has emerged as a game-changer. Ethernet, a well-established stan- dard in the realm of computer networking, offers numerous advantages in terms of bandwidth, scalability, and flexibility, making it an attractive solution for in-vehicle communication networks. However, being an innovative communication protocol in the automotive industry, it leads to brand new challenges: to define validation methodologies and strategies that allow to easily test the integrability of Engine Control Unit (ECU) interconnected on Ethernet and to perform high specific simulations on a virtual environment among all the involved peripherals of the vehicle.