KVM ARM virtualisation

[vanja]

Hi,
would this work on pinehphone? any distribution, like debian?
https://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/kvm-arm/

https://systems.cs.columbia.edu/archive/...hitecture/

what I dont really undestand is in which phase of development is this? can it be downloaded and installed or this is just design phase..

[wibble]

It seems like kvm should work, assuming the right options are enabled in the kernel. I haven't tried or checked the current pinephone os options, and I can imagine it's the sort of thing that might not be enabled by default.

https://community.arm.com/developer/tool...g-qemu-kvm
https://falstaff.agner.ch/2016/08/23/usi...mu-on-arm/

[Subsentient]

I don't think the A64 CPU has the necessary extension instructions to support KVM.

[vanja]

I don't think the A64 CPU has the necessary extension instructions to support KVM.

it seems it actually does..
https://forum.pine64.org/archive/index.php?thread-204.html
they were close...kvm running on a64 host, but crashes. this was 4 years ago, wonder how it ended...