[Arm-dev] Xen on Cubieboards

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/12/2014 08:43 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 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.

Actually it was the ex-product manager at xen who is back at 
Cambridge...  Getting the 'fact's piecemeal here.


>>
>> 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 :-)

Yeah, when I get the 5 C2 and 1 CT I just ordered, and put a real drive 
on them, I will try it with a couple.