Thread: Hypervisor for N900 (and others)....would anyone be interested?
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davedickson is offline davedickson
2011-05-29 , 08:01
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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.
Oh, and on second thoughts (now I have had my morning coffee) you wouldn't need to chop up the hardware, pre-allocated space, memory and load balancing might help with that, you wouldn't have to assign memory/other resources on a VM by VM basis, if your using one VM it would run with all the hardware available, until you wanted to use the other one, and unless your loading (running apps on) both at the same time it wouldn't be an issue, but for most people it would be a case of only using one VM at a time anyway......

Like the other day, I was messing around with workstation (which is installed on my works Win7) and I wanted to convert .vdi to .vmdk

I found a nice way to do this on Linux (doing the conversion on Windows was messy), so just powered up Ubuntu, transferred the original .vdi file to the VM, converted the file, transferred the new . vmdk file back to Windows, shut down Ubuntu, job done, with no re-booting etc