Linux_Tester Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 (edited) How to enable kvm/virtualisation on orange pi 3 lts? I want run windows for arm on qemu with kvm, but in the kernel there is no kvm module . How i can add this module to kernel? I know that the allwinner h6 has support for virtualisation. Edited April 1, 2023 by Linux_Tester 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werner Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 You can use the build framework to create a custom kernel package for your board:https://github.com/armbian/build 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linux_Tester Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 @Werner I can use this build framework for official orange pi distro(ubuntu)? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werner Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Short answer: No. It is for building Armbian with your favorite userspace (Debian or Ubuntu) on top. Not so short answer: Yesno. About a year ago Orangepi forked the Armbian build framework to produce their own "official" images so... 😄 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonflylee Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 you can try my fork of official image builder https://github.com/dragonflylee/orangepi/releases/download/next/Orangepi3-lts_3.1.0_debian_bookworm_server_linux5.16.17.img.gz 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 3 hours ago, dragonflylee said: you can try my fork of official image builder Official image builder is old Armbian fork that is not maintained by anyone, so its at least security hazardous to run those low quality quickly made official builds. Anyway they are contributing nothing but build configs. You would help a lot more people, regularly, if you add config changes (what you are adding, not what you are striping out) to the Armbian build framework, which is applying fixes daily: - for build configuration - hardware support https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/ That you will not find in official software support. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag123 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 this topic is interesting and I delved a little into this rabbit hole for a little. the conventional KVM started in Intel's X86 and subquently AMD's X86_64 architecture https://linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page Quote Kernel Virtual Machine KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc. then along the way came ARM virtualization extensions https://genode.org/documentation/articles/arm_virtualization https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102142/0100/Virtualization-host-extensions but that technically, this is running ARM instructions in a hardware enabled virtualization container. Hence, if one is thinking about emulating X86 codes that may be another universe on its own and another layer of complexity. So for that matter we consider the idea of running different ARM OS in ARM hardware virtualizations. So here are some links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine#cite_note-7 https://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/kvm-arm/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130310052146/http://columbia.github.com/linux-kvm-arm/ https://github.com/columbia/linux-kvm-arm well that is KVM but have you also taken a look at Xen? https://xenproject.org/developers/teams/xen-hypervisor/ ^ I never fully understand the difference between Xen vs KVM until I reviewed the slides https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Software_Overview https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Software_Overview#Host_and_Guest_Install https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen the details are quite complicated but hopefully it provide options, and I'm uncertain how well would that Xen hypervisor run on Allwinner H6. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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