There's been some progress on finding ARM64 hosting online now. Justin found one that he seems to be using successfully (if slowly)... who is the provider?
I don't find that ARM is particularly beneficial for online hosting outside of having a convenient build box to generate binaries or Docker containers for my Cubieboard and other local ARM devices. It's very convenient for that though... Anil > On 27 Nov 2015, at 15:28, Nick Hardiman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve 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? What’s an attractive > tech stack? > > > >> On 13 Nov 2015, at 11:29, Justin Cormack <[email protected]> >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 12 Nov 2015, at 00:11, Vincent Bernardoff <[email protected]> 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 those… >>>>> >>>>> 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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MirageOS-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MirageOS-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MirageOS-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MirageOS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel _______________________________________________ MirageOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel
