[HN Gopher] Xen on Raspberry Pi 4
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       Xen on Raspberry Pi 4
        
       Author : posix_me_less
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2020-10-04 17:10 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | gorgoiler wrote:
       | I reach for LXC if I need to contain something inside it's own
       | OS, on the condition that the contained OS is running the same
       | kernel as the host.
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       | As I understand it, Xen would allow me to contain OSs that aren't
       | even Linux. What is available for Raspberry pi's hardware, that I
       | should try?
       | 
       | Is there a compelling advantage to using Xen for a container
       | Linux, versus LXC?
        
         | dylz wrote:
         | Xen is not a container, compare it to qemu/KVM more.
         | 
         | I would not host untrusted customers in docker containers, LXC,
         | but I would in Xen HVM any day.
        
           | NullPrefix wrote:
           | >I would [..] host untrusted customers in [...] Xen HVM any
           | day.
           | 
           | Intel doesn't recommend running untrusted code even in a
           | separate VM, according to their official explanation of
           | Spectre/Meltdown. At least we can do it on RPi now.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | tosh wrote:
       | > According to the RPi Foundation, over 35 million have been
       | sold, with 44% of these sold into industry
        
       | als0 wrote:
       | Has anyone tried comparing Xen's performance on the Pi against
       | KVM? Any reason to choose the former over the latter?
        
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