Xen Hypervisor Support Being Worked On For RISC-V

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67385

    Xen Hypervisor Support Being Worked On For RISC-V

    Phoronix: Xen Hypervisor Support Being Worked On For RISC-V

    Linux has supported KVM virtualization with RISC-V for several years while now patches are pending to introduce Xen hypervisor support for this CPU architecture for RISC-V guests...

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  • uid313
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 6922

    #2
    What is the state of RISC-V?

    Does GNOME and KDE work?
    Does VLC media player and mkv work?
    Does FFmpeg and GStreamer work?
    Does Firefox and Chromium work?
    Does QEMU, KVM, libvirt and VirtualBox work?
    Does Java and .NET work?
    Does Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Julia and Tcl work?

    What does work and what does not work?

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    • Quackdoc
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2020
      • 5095

      #3
      Originally posted by uid313 View Post
      What is the state of RISC-V?

      Does GNOME and KDE work?
      Does VLC media player and mkv work?
      Does FFmpeg and GStreamer work?
      Does Firefox and Chromium work?
      Does QEMU, KVM, libvirt and VirtualBox work?
      Does Java and .NET work?
      Does Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Julia and Tcl work?

      What does work and what does not work?
      i think this is a yes on all accounts? I mean most things will work as long as they don't explicitly hard require need assembly.

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      • hamishmb
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2022
        • 264

        #4
        I imagine VirtualBox probably doesn't work, but I could be wrong there.

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        • Quackdoc
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2020
          • 5095

          #5
          Originally posted by hamishmb View Post
          I imagine VirtualBox probably doesn't work, but I could be wrong there.
          doesn't vbox work with kvm now? i would think if so it should be there.

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          • ayumu
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2008
            • 668

            #6
            Xen understands RISC-V absolutely is the priority, as it's going to be the only architecture that matters soon.

            Got to be there and not miss the train.

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            • hamishmb
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2022
              • 264

              #7
              Originally posted by Quackdoc View Post

              doesn't vbox work with kvm now? i would think if so it should be there.
              Good point, maybe it will work with KVM. I miss the like feature.

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              • Gamer1227
                Phoronix Member
                • Mar 2024
                • 68

                #8
                Originally posted by uid313 View Post
                What is the state of RISC-V?

                Does GNOME and KDE work?
                Does VLC media player and mkv work?
                Does FFmpeg and GStreamer work?
                Does Firefox and Chromium work?
                Does QEMU, KVM, libvirt and VirtualBox work?
                Does Java and .NET work?
                Does Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Julia and Tcl work?

                What does work and what does not work?
                Works: Gnome, KDE, VLC, FFMPEG, Firefox, Choromium, QEMU, libvirt, Java, Python. (KVM works, but requires Hypervisor support, wich curenr hardware dont have)

                Dont work: VirtualBox, Julia, Ruby, PHP, Tcl, .Net

                Not sure: GStreamer

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                • NotMine999
                  Senior Member
                  • Feb 2014
                  • 1039

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ayumu View Post
                  Xen understands RISC-V absolutely is the priority, as it's going to be the only architecture that matters soon.

                  Got to be there and not miss the train.
                  And what is your authority to make such claims on behalf of the Xen project? Seriously.

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                  • olivier
                    Junior Member
                    • Aug 2014
                    • 18

                    #10
                    For those who are interested about RISC-V and Xen, Vates (XCP-ng+Xen Orchestra) is leading the effort on porting Xen to it. It's a news for Phoronix because it reaches the Linux kernel, but in fact, there's many interesting stuff on the progress at the hypervisor level, check the latest blog post about it: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2024/09/23/a...v-key-updates/
                    Last edited by olivier; 16 January 2025, 05:00 AM.

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