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...