Re: [MirageOS-devel] Hardware choices for ARM64

[Nick Hardiman <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Iâve been turning over some ideas. I read about the virtualization problem on 
https://www.scaleway.com/.
https://github.com/scaleway/kernel-tools/issues/14#issuecomment-105536276

How useful would Internet hosting on ARM bare metal be? Whatâs an attractive 
tech stack?



> On 13 Nov 2015, at 11:29, Justin Cormack <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The main performance thing is using an external SATA SSD, rather than
> onboard flash which is usually extremely slow. The Cubietrucks are
> reasonable for this.
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> On 12 November 2015 at 21:08, Stefan Xenon <stefanxe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi!
>> As a newbie I'm a bit confused which boards and CPUs work with
>> MirageOS/XEN. I understood while ARM64 doesn't work yet (but it
>> shouldn't be a big deal to get it running) instead ARM32 is the only
>> architecture supported. Obviously Cubieboard2 works but I couldn't find
>> information about other supported devices. In particular I'm interested
>> in faster devices than the Cubieboard2. Could anybody list other working
>> boards and summarize the requirements to look for?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot.
>> 
>> Am 12.11.2015 um 14:42 schrieb Anil Madhavapeddy:
>>> 
>>>> On 12 Nov 2015, at 11:43, Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 12 Nov 2015, at 00:11, Vincent Bernardoff <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 09/11/2015 15:21, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>>>>>> Just fyi, I also got another off-list reply pointing to:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The gigabyte MP30-AR0 boards are nice and very affordable:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> includes the X-gene 1 processor. They cost around $700
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -anil
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> FYI, french provider online.net has released https://www.scaleway.com, a
>>>>> dedicated arm servers / cloud offer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It is perhaps possible to run Mirage on thoseâ
>>>> 
>>>> We did explore this but unfortunately there was a hardware limitation.
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/scaleway/kernel-tools/issues/14#issuecomment-105536276
>>> 
>>> Xen doesn't run on there right now -- another option is that once the 
>>> Rump/Mirage hw/HVM backend gets more mature native ARM support, we should 
>>> be able to boot directly on the Scaleway C1s as bare metal.
>>> 
>>> Anil
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