Re: About installing FreeBSD,natively or virtualized on top of Android or Linux kernel.
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 13:04:52 UTC
---> Pete Wright said : certainly a long way to go before this could be a useful mobile device... I agree with that,for this reason I'm trying to follow another route. Enabling KVM on a semi-old android phone (I've just found the right one) or even on my old ARM chromebook or my old tablet Nexus 10 and I will try to virtualize FreeBSD on top of Android or Linux installed there with qemu + kvm. Furthermore,I can't buy the pinephone pro,it is too expensive for me. Maybe I could buy the pinephone (not the pro version) later,but I've read that it's not good enough to do experiments with FreeBSD. And therefore there is a small group of developers who are making experiments with the pro version. If I buy the "normal" version I may be cut out from their results. It's not a good idea to remain alone. On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 11:30 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 28/05/2023 10:59, Mario Marietto wrote: > > > … My idea is to enable KVM on Android (or Linux ?) kernel and then > > virtualize FreeBSD on top of them. > > > > So,what's the quality of the FreeBSD for arm ? Which version of > > FreeBSD could I try to install / virtualize on that phone ? How much > > will FreeBSD be good if virtualized like that ? Sometimes I say that > > it is not a good idea because the OS will be overwhelmed and not > > really usable. What do you think ? > > > I can't answer the questions, but near-coincidence: > > <http://freebsd.markmail.org/thread/xzx7ux2uurrt6jw3> (with links) | > <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2023-May/003759.html> > (without) > > >> PinePhone Pro Boots On CURRENT > > -- Mario.