Xen Virtualization On ARM Hits New Milestone

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Xen Virtualization On ARM Hits New Milestone

With the ongoing work to better enable virtualization support for the ARM architecture under Linux, the developers working on Xen enablement have reached a new milestone...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEzMjc

[uid313]

But no support for SPARC, POWER or MIPS.

[schmidtbag]

If this article was referring to ARM being a guest system (as well as host) then I see a pretty nifty idea for this. Imagine using xen's powerful pci-passthrough and send over a full-blown gpu to a virtual ARM setup? This assumes the host is x86 based but still.

[TheOrqwithVagrant]

But no support for SPARC, POWER or MIPS.

There used to be a version for POWER, but the branch was dropped due to lack of interest/maintenance.

[adler187]

If this article was referring to ARM being a guest system (as well as host) then I see a pretty nifty idea for this. Imagine using xen's powerful pci-passthrough and send over a full-blown gpu to a virtual ARM setup? This assumes the host is x86 based but still.

That doesn't make any sense, since Xen doesn't do cpu emulation. The host and guest must match architecture. There might be a way to run a virtual ARM machine in QEMU running under Xen somehow, but why would you want to do this anyway?