Re: Rpi considerations

Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:

Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> writes:
 

Daniel wrote:
>

No I didn't and thanks for alerting me on that. I thought the VM's could
specify architecture.

>
Actually ARM Docker can run x86 images, but expect it to be sluggish.

 
Debian is home to me and there is an ARM version so I'll likely go that
route. Still evaluating.

I think the later Pis (4 and 5) do support KVM now, which earlier ones
didn't.  However I don't think it's a road very well travelled, so there
could be bumps.

With KVM you can run an Arm OS, but:

Pi OS images are designed to be relashed to a Pi SD card, so don't UEFI
which is probably the way KVM/QEMU wants to boot them.  There are generic
Arm server images which probably will boot, and you can then install GUI
packages. You won't get GPU acceleration as there's no idea of Pi GPU
passthrough.

While there might be no Kubuntu image, that's easy to install on a
standard Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

The other limitation with Pis is the limited RAM, which might not be enough.
Docker makes better use of RAM than VMs, and is a much more popular path.

TL:DR if you want an easy life go with Docker on Pi or VMs on x86. Other
routes are more 'interesting'.

Theo
(who should play with KVM on Pi4 sometime)