(04-29-2020, 12:12 PM)marawuti Wrote: Sorry if this a dupe of prior questions about hypervisor implementations on Pine hardware.

Has anyone out there installed the Xen hypervisor on the Pinebook Pro then reinstalled Manjaro?

I don't want to reinvent the wheel.  I'd like to be able to run customized images of Raspbian in a virtualizer not an emulator.

Just found be Pinebook Pro and it looks quite promising.  Also am looking to replace Presario running Linux as my alternate to Windoz platform for the household, also, again, the Pinebook Pro looks like a no-brainer.

(04-30-2020, 04:27 AM)tophneal Wrote: Porting may not be necessary, Xen is in the AUR.

Quote:To run HVM domU, the physical hardware must have either Intel VT-x or AMD-V (SVM) virtualization support. In order to verify this, run the following command when the Xen hypervisor is not running:

Code:

$ grep -E "(vmx|svm)" --color=always /proc/cpuinfo

If the above command does not produce output, then hardware virtualization support is unavailable and your hardware is unable to run HVM domU (or you are already running the Xen hypervisor).

(04-30-2020, 05:06 AM)tophneal Wrote: I’m not entirely sure, no. But Xen cites itself as having ARM support already, and is in the AUR. If the Xen in the AUR is only x86, it’s still likely possible to build on the PBP by editing the pkgbuild. I’d try it out myself, but I’d have to make another Manjaro SD first.

Read a little more into this on the Arch wiki, and I'm probably wrong about the porting, but it looks like there's a pretty quick way to see if it's possible to run Xen on aarch64:

Quote:To run HVM domU, the physical hardware must have either Intel VT-x or AMD-V (SVM) virtualization support. In order to verify this, run the following command when the Xen hypervisor is not running:

Code:

$ grep -E "(vmx|svm)" --color=always /proc/cpuinfo

If the above command does not produce output, then hardware virtualization support is unavailable and your hardware is unable to run HVM domU (or you are already running the Xen hypervisor).

(04-30-2020, 08:36 AM)astr0baby Wrote:

(04-30-2020, 05:06 AM)tophneal Wrote: I’m not entirely sure, no. But Xen cites itself as having ARM support already, and is in the AUR. If the Xen in the AUR is only x86, it’s still likely possible to build on the PBP by editing the pkgbuild. I’d try it out myself, but I’d have to make another Manjaro SD first.

Read a little more into this on the Arch wiki, and I'm probably wrong about the porting, but it looks like there's a pretty quick way to see if it's possible to run Xen on aarch64:

Quote:To run HVM domU, the physical hardware must have either Intel VT-x or AMD-V (SVM) virtualization support. In order to verify this, run the following command when the Xen hypervisor is not running:

Code:

$ grep -E "(vmx|svm)" --color=always /proc/cpuinfo

If the above command does not produce output, then hardware virtualization support is unavailable and your hardware is unable to run HVM domU (or you are already running the Xen hypervisor).

There are no vmx nor svm flags on the Pinebookpro in /proc/cpuinfo

only
fp asmid evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid

(04-30-2020, 08:39 AM)tophneal Wrote:

(04-30-2020, 08:36 AM)astr0baby Wrote:

(04-30-2020, 05:06 AM)tophneal Wrote: I’m not entirely sure, no. But Xen cites itself as having ARM support already, and is in the AUR. If the Xen in the AUR is only x86, it’s still likely possible to build on the PBP by editing the pkgbuild. I’d try it out myself, but I’d have to make another Manjaro SD first.

Read a little more into this on the Arch wiki, and I'm probably wrong about the porting, but it looks like there's a pretty quick way to see if it's possible to run Xen on aarch64:

Quote:To run HVM domU, the physical hardware must have either Intel VT-x or AMD-V (SVM) virtualization support. In order to verify this, run the following command when the Xen hypervisor is not running:

Code:

$ grep -E "(vmx|svm)" --color=always /proc/cpuinfo

If the above command does not produce output, then hardware virtualization support is unavailable and your hardware is unable to run HVM domU (or you are already running the Xen hypervisor).

There are no vmx nor svm flags on the Pinebookpro in /proc/cpuinfo

only
fp asmid evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid

Yeah, once I saw those flag requirements, I knew I was in the wrong. OP will likely need to explorer other options.

EDIT:

I'm in the midst of updating Fedora on the PBP and it appears it already includes Xen. There's also Xen pkgs for aarch64 available here: https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=xen
Xen on aarch64 may be a possibility, though it might have some restrictions given those required flags.