Re: [Minios-devel] [Unikraft] Support for KVM on ARM

[Simon Kuenzer <simon.kuenzer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 09.04.2018 11:41, Ajay Garg wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> Thanks for the continued support.
>
> > Unikernels could potentially run on baremetal. Are you looking at multiple
> > unikernels on the same platform? If it is only one, the virtualization is
> > probably not the right solution.
> >
> > > The idea of this study is to understand and compare between unikernels
> > > and containers in an embedded platform.
> > What exactly do you want to compare? If it is performance, then you want to
> > get as close as what people would run. Assuming you platform to run multiple
> > unikernels, then likely you want to get a platform with virtualization
> > because this is what most of end user will use.
>
> As you are already aware that we have been investigating quite a bit
> for different options, and given the current state, would be happy if
> we are able to achieve the following :
>
> a)
> Running one unikernel on arm32 in baremetal mode, without an underlying OS.
>
> b)
> Running multiple unikernels on arm64 with xen-hypervisor.
>
>
> So, given the current state, how would you suggest we proceed?
Right now, you can test Unikraft with Xen on arm32. Be aware that there 
is a open bug on the memory allocator for arm 
(see:https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Category:Unikraft_Users). arm64 
with Xen is currently not supported but we working on it. Same for KVM 
and baremetal.
We use cubieboard2/3 for arm32 tests. These boards are even officially 
supported by Debian and can run Xen.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ajay

Thanks,

Simon

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