[gwd]

I'm not sure what use case VMWare is aiming at, but Xen is on loads of embedded systems now. These aren't large server VMs; typically they'd be some system where they have (say) one VM as a realtime OS controlling a piece of hardware, and another providing the UI. Under such a system you'd typically do a hard partition, assigning a fixed number of vcpus and memory to each VM.

The LF Edge project is specifically targeted at something about the size of an RPI, and wants to use virtualization for that case:

https://www.lfedge.org/

[kbumsik]

I guess VMWare is aiming at server market. Here is the summary section of OP:

> Over the past several years, you've seen us demonstrate our virtualization technology on the Arm platform across several use cases, everything from running mission critical workloads on a windmill, to running on the SmartNIC, to running on AWS Graviton in the cloud.

[gwd]

Actually I misread this. VMWare is specifically saying that they've run ESXi-Arm on windmills. So it's exactly the same thing: They seem to be thinking about going embedded, and RPi turns out to be a good board for a lot of industrial use cases.

[gwd]

Right, but would you ever run VMWare on a fleet of RPis as a cloud of some sort? I mean, I guess you could, but it seems like a rather strange combination.

[RulerOf]

A cluster of ESXi servers doing vSAN and HA/FT is just another technique for making a given application highly reliable. There might be "better" ways to do it, but I look at this and see a very straightforward way to turn half a dozen Raspberry Pis into five nines of uptime (or more) for an embedded device.

[tpetry]

You can roll out an virtualisation solution on raspis to many many many devices, perfect for making it rock solid. The arm server market is still very small, you will not haavy many customers able to test it, and much less risking using an still unstable solution.

This is a perfect entry to the arm server market.