Re: [Minios-devel] [Unikraft] Support for KVM on ARM

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 05/04/18 16:25, Ajay Garg wrote:
> Thanks Julien for the help ...
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:19 PM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > >
> > KVM is a module to enable the use of virtualization extension. If you don't
> > use them, then you better just use QEMU. But as Simon said, this is going to
> > be really slow.
> Yep, exactly ..
>
>
> > > Would be great to have more viewpoints :)
> > You seem to have asked for PV support in 4 different threads the past week
> > and on different mailing list (Mini-OS, KVM...). But I still don't
> > understand what is your end goal. Maybe you could start by answering the
> > following questions:
> >          - What is your end goal?
> >          - What is your definition of low-end platform? There are some at
> > ~10$ with virtualization extensions. So why not them?
> Our end goal is
>              "To run a Python Unikernel application on an ARM platform".
>
> Hence we were/are looking at the available hardware at our end as
> testing environment (Beaglebone).
Unikernels could potentially run on baremetal. Are you looking at 
multiple unikernels on the same platform? If it is only one, the 
virtualization is probably not the right solution.
> The idea of this study is to understand and compare between unikernels
> and containers in an embedded platform.
What exactly do you want to compare? If it is performance, then you want 
to get as close as what people would run. Assuming you platform to run 
multiple unikernels, then likely you want to get a platform with 
virtualization because this is what most of end user will use.
Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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