Hi Peter, 2016-02-25 10:30 GMT-05:00 Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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). Thank you very much for your quick reply! I'm wondering if KVM community has any plan to make KVM compatible with Cortex A9 processors? If someone, with linux scheduler development experiment but without porting experiment, wants to port KVM to Cortex A9, how hard could it be to port KVM onto Cortex A9 processor? Best regards, Meng _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
