Supporting KVM on the ARM architecture

Posted Jul 5, 2013 11:01 UTC (Fri) by danpb (subscriber, #4831)
In reply to: Supporting KVM on the ARM architecture by olof
Parent article: Supporting KVM on the ARM architecture

> The Samsung ARM-based Chromebook has the same SoC in it, but
> unfortunately the firmware on the system does not launch the
> kernel in HYP mode, so you can't run KVM out of the box on
> them (I.e. not even with the chainloaded nv-u-boot).

Hmm, this page claims to have tested KVM on the ARM Chromebook

http://columbia.github.io/linux-kvm-arm/

but they don't mention what they did about the bootloader/HYP mode problem. The Xen folks seem to suggest it is just a matter of compiling a version of u-boot with HYP mode support, and presumably they then chainloaded it

http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/05/23/bringing-xen-on-...

Supporting KVM on the ARM architecture

Posted Jul 5, 2013 23:32 UTC (Fri) by christofferdall (guest, #63430) [Link]

We have heard from a number of people who have successfully booted KVM on the chromebook using the HYP U-boot approach, but I haven't verified this myself.

However, given that you can chainload u-boot and that the device boots in secure mode it should be possible with enough effort to run KVM on there.