On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 08/12/2014 07:52 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Dr. Jon Crowcroft over at Cambridge (an old IETF friend), just told me that they have a XEN port to the Cubieboard.
If that is of interest to anyone here, I plan on getting more information. I have never entered into the world of virtualization (other than VM on old IBM iron), but might give it a try. Particularly if Jon gets one of his students to help me along...
Hello Robert, if you mean Cubieboard2 or Cubietruck (AKA Cubieboard3), they are both supported by Xen on ARM, so upstream Xen should be able to run on them without modifications:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions/Allwinner
I asked Jon, and he said, "basically yes". Sounds like this student did the port and contributed the code.
It is just thinking of virtualizing in ONLY 1Gb of memory; how many VMs can you run and get anything done?
:)
Coming from a guy who did FORTRAN program development on a PDP8 with 4K of memory...
You can do a lot with 256MB in a VM :-)