On 25 February 2016 at 15:17, xu mike <upennmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm a student from the University of Pennsylvania. I want to try KVM on ARM > boards. > > I have a Freescale IMX6 board [1] which has ARM Cortex A9 processors. > I'm wondering if KVM can run on the Freescale IMX6 board? or > Can KVM run on any ARM board with ARM Cortex A9 processors? > > I noticed at [2] that " KVM/ARM is designed specifically to work on ARM > processors with the virtualization extensions enabled to run unmodified > guest operating systems." > I'm wondering if this statement is still true? Yes, it is. You need a CPU with the virtualization extensions, and the A9 does not have them. You want (for instance) an A15 or an A7. There are cheap A7-based development boards out there, for instance the CubieTruck (which is not very fast but can run a mainline Linux kernel and KVM so is a reasonable getting-started development platform). thanks -- PMM _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
