Thanks for the info. I think I've got a vague grasp on this.

Am I right in thinking that I can create a uni-kernel with solo5 in the
form of a .iso? And this image could be run by QEMU like this:

qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom image.iso -m 512

So I'd need to build mirage outside the Pi but could then deploy it this
way?

Thanks again,

Joel

On 4 March 2016 at 18:47, Daniel J Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> > From: Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]>
>
> > If this doesn't work out though, see if you can get KVM to work with
> > a Linux guest.  The work on Solo5 means that a KVM ARM port is
> > reasonably straightforward if we go down that path...
>
> If you want to go the Solo5/Mirage route, I wouldn't worry about
> KVM for now!
>
> I think you should be able to run Solo5/Mirage out of the box on
> the rPi3 on QEMU if you run QEMU in emulation-only mode.
>
> You should be able to find/install a QEMU package for ARM.  That
> will be able to provide a full system x86 abstraction to
> Solo5/Mirage.  Solo5 does expect an x86 environment (currently
> provided by QEMU in a Linux+KVM+QEMU system), so, as it stands, a
> lot of the virtual hardware initialization code in the Solo5
> kernel is x86 specific.  I think this will prevent you from using
> QEMU with virtualization assist by KVM with Solo5 on an ARM
> without changes to Solo5.
>
> I don't have a rPi3 either, but want to get one!  Then I'd be
> happy to help troubleshooting Solo5/Mirage on QEMU on the Pi!
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> > On 4 Mar 2016, at 16:11, Joel Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a Raspberry Pi 3 and looking at the specs it seems comparable
> > to the cubieboard/cubietruck and thought that it might be possible
> > to run the Xen Hypervisor and MirageOS unikernels on it?
> > https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3-specs-benchmarks/
>
> > Is KVM+Solo5 or U-Boot a good starting point?
> > Is there an effort in progress to work on this, if so I'd love to help
> out?
> >
>
>
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