#Goodway kvm install
#Goodway kvm software

To check for a particular kernel config in a running kernel, for example CONFIG_NET_9P, do the zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_NET_9PĪ good way of enabling configs before re-building a kernel is to use the scripts/config that is present in the Linux scripts/config -enable CONFIG_NET_9

#Goodway kvm install

To install the kvmtool on Debian run the following on a apt-get install kvmtoolīy default, the HiKey kernel should have been configured with all the recommended settings for kvmtool (see README). If you found that not to be the case, follow the HiKey building from source instructions and replace the kernel. We will discuss building from source in the next section and focus on the quick way of running it on this one.

#Goodway kvm software

However this doesn’t prevent you from running a networking enabled Linux guest on your octa-core HiKey as a matter of fact, there is a simple yet efficient way to execute a Linux guest OS on any Linux KVM enabled system without the need for more complex - and powerful- software virtualization packages: the native KVM tool, ie kvmtool.īut of course you can still use QEMU if that is what you qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a53 -machine type=virt -nographic -smp 1 -m 512 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-135-arm64 -append 'console=ttyAMA0' -enable-kvmĭepending on whether your interest leans towards learning about the KVM API or simply in starting another Linux instance as a guest, you might choose to either install from source or use a package manager.

Having said that and despite the specification being available - but perhaps due to it being so recent- you might have some issues finding OS images that comply to it. You can download the 2.0 version of the specification on this link. The second version of the VM System Specification for ARM processors was released back in April 2016: this document aims at providing a set of guidelines for both guest OS and hypervisors such that OS images built according to these guidelines shall guarantee that those images will be able to execute on those hypervisors.

This was made possible thanks to the open nature of the HiKey software stack but also to the early work done by Marc Zyngier as captured on this post and the numerous contributions to aarch64 from the Linaro Virtualization team. For some releases now, KVM - the virtualization infrastructure that turns the Linux kernel into an hypervisor- has been available in the HiKey from 96Boards.