On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:01:09PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I prefer to run pukka Debian rather than Raspbian, approximately as > described at http://sjoerd.luon.net/posts/2015/02/debian-jessie-on-rpi2/ > > http://blog.flexvdi.com/2015/03/17/enabling-kvm-virtualization-on-the-raspberry-pi-2/ > and related pages describes getting Qemu+KVM running on an RPi2.
Wow I did not know it used a non standard interrupt controller. Ouch that would make it painful. > Has anybody done this, are there comparable instructions for an RPi3, and- > above all- is there a straightforward kernel release suitable for host and > guest? > > I've had it working after a fashion on an RPi2, but I found the process of > working out how the standard kernel was built and then merging patches from > GOK where to be painful. I suspect it would be quite similar between the Pi2 and pi3, although who knows, there could be more small differences showing up. I have only run kvm for arm on an AM572x which has a standard interrupt controller and hence was not too bad to get going. -- Len Sorensen
