From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM VM System Sepcification Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:05:06 +0100 Message-ID: <530F0DD2.5040402@redhat.com> References: <20140226183454.GA14639@cbox> <20140226222147.GE16149@cbox> <201402270830.16903.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rob Herring , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Peter Maydell , Ian Campbell , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , cross-distro@lists.linaro.org, "marc.zyngier@arm.com" , Michael Casadevall , Leif Lindholm , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Robie Basak , Stefano Stabellini , Grant Likely , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" To: Arnd Bergmann , Christoffer Dall Return-path: Received: from mail-qa0-f45.google.com ([209.85.216.45]:53446 "EHLO mail-qa0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750781AbaB0KFN (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 05:05:13 -0500 Received: by mail-qa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id m5so3819326qaj.32 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:05:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201402270830.16903.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Il 27/02/2014 08:30, Arnd Bergmann ha scritto: > I guess the real question is whether we are interested in running Windows RT > in VM guests. I don't personally expect MS to come out with a port for > this spec, no matter what we do, but some of you may have information I don't. Given enough firmware and driver support there's no reason why Windows and Linux should be any different---they certainly aren't on x86. Right now Windows on ARM is just tablets and hence RT; but things might change for server-based ARM. So Windows support as a VM should definitely be on the table, but so is writing custom drivers: you certainly will be able at some point to build virtio drivers for ARM, and use them with this spec. Paolo