From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: john cooper Subject: Re: Looking at using KVM for embedded product Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:45:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4C221013.9050301@third-harmonic.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, john cooper To: Tom Shoes Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11608 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752262Ab0FWNye (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:54:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Tom Shoes wrote: > Hi there, > > I am looking at using KVM for an embedded product. I am also new > to Virtualization so pardon if > I ask dumb questions. This is my first time posting to this forum. > > The embedded product that need to run KVM has: > > a. Intel processor with VT > b. BIOS supports enabling VT > c. Linux kernel 2.6.26 (from kernel.org) > d. No VGA adapter > e. Serial console > f. BusyBox Busybox is an interesting requirement in that context. If you are constrained with userland size and linking against other than glibc, use of qemu could be interesting. Can't say I've built it other than linked against glibc and an extensive list of runtime libraries. Although I've never tried to configure-down that dependency. -john -- john.cooper@third-harmonic.com