Re: virtualization Android OS + XEN.

[anshul makkar <anshulmakkar@gmail.com>]

Hi Julien,

Thanks for the information.

I am looking for Cubietruck or Cubieboard 2 with Allwinner A20
processor but at present its not available in Germany. Any information
about support/testing of XEN on A20-OLinuXino board
(https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-MICRO-4GB/open-source-hardware),
as I am planning to buy it as an alternative to Cubieboard. If at
present XEN support is not therefor OLinuXindo, do you see any issues
in supporting it ?

Thanks
Anshul Makkar

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 08/07/2014 10:44 AM, anshul makkar wrote:
>> Thanks Leonardo and Stefano.
>>
>> The information you shared is really helpful to get me started and get
>> basic understanding of where Xen stands in its support for ARM.
>>
>> Below is my understanding, request your help to correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> 1) XEN support for the ARM processor where hardware virtualization is
>> not supported is not there.
>>
>> 2) Presently XEN port has been tested  on the following cards.
>>
>>   * The Cortex A15 Real-time System Model's provided by ARM
>>   * A Cortex-A15 Processor running on the Versatile Express
>>   * The Arndale board
>>   * The Calxeda ECX-2000 (aka Midway) server
>>   * Allwinner A20/A31 boards
>
> Porting Xen to a new board it's only a matter of a hundred lines if your
> platform support virtualization.
>
>> I have Odroid Cortex A9 board, which doesn't have hardware
>> virtualization. So for sure XEN can't be ported on that.
>>
>> Any idea or test results for Cortex A15 board (ODroidXU3 ) provided by
>> ODroid. Whether this board is supported or not ?
>
> There is some on-going work to upstream support for ODroid XU.
>
> You can give a look here:
>
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-07/msg03363.html
>
>> Please can you share some other board models that are cheap and
>> supported by XEN ARM. What I have found on net is that all boards having
>> Cortex A15 and hardware virtualization support, so that they are
>> compatible with XEN, are quite expensive.
>
> The Cubietruck is supported by Xen. IIRC, the price is less 100$.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Julien Grall



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