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.