Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai in a VM

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Brian L. wrote:
>> Has anyone tried running Xenomai inside a virtual machine (i.e. Qemu,
>> Parallels, VMWare, bochs, simics)? Is there any reason to expect this
>> to fail? In theory, the virtualization software should appear as a
>> vanilla x86 to the OS running inside of it, but I'd imagine xenomai
>> could potentially tweak bits of the cpu/architecture that are not as
>> supported by the virtualization software .
>>
>> Of course, I wouldn't expect any real-time characteristics or
>> performance to speak of. This would be for development/testing only.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Should work, just give it a try. We once started to play with our full
> embedded distro under bochs, but I do not recall right now how far we
> came - need to check with the person who actually did the work.
> 

Meanwhile I'm running a VM myself: QEMU. No problems, it just works
without any trick, also with RT software or with kgdb attached to the
Xenomai kernel.

Jan


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