Thread: Hypervisor for N900 (and others)....would anyone be interested?
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davedickson is offline davedickson
2011-05-29 , 06:33
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Originally Posted by Hurrian View Post
Have fun working with 256MB RAM and slow-*** swap! Unless you're running X-less instances of Gentoo on the puny 2009-era ARM core.

An ARM HV would be great... on an A9/A15 multicore.

Not saying that it isn't possible, I mean it would be cool to run Xen (or something closer to bare metal, I guess), but let's say we have XLV-1150-1150, 128/128 MB physical RAM slices and 1GB of swap for each, one on MMC and other on eMMC, displays exported over VNC/X-Forwarding, and probably a VM Monitor on the phone. That's still a rather slow environment for... LXDE? You aren't running anything more than Firefox or a few tabs in Chromium.
True, the hardware would probably struggle with more than a couple of guest OS's running at once, and that is depending on how "bare-metal" you could get the HV, plus we would have the downside of having to have the VM console, which the likes of ESXi don't. I do agree it sounds like it would be slow (at best)...

But I was thinking long term as well as current solution, as hardware improves, it would just be a case of adding the hardware support to the HV and we could install it.

That was kind of my point as well, wouldn't it be easier to just keep changing and adding to a HV for each new device - I guess just adding the HW drivers each time - rather than editing each new OS that comes out? Surely this way, the community could just maintain a single piece of software (the HV) and then the user would have the option to install any other OS's without them having to be edited, seems like less work to me....

Sorry if that didn't make much sense, it's early