[Arm-dev] Xen on Cubieboards

[Stefano Stabellini]

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 :-)