Re: About installing FreeBSD,natively or virtualized on top of Android or Linux kernel.

---> 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 <[email protected]>
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.