[Chester LUG] Banana Pi review for those interested.

[Michael Crilly]

Isn't the VT flag only for hardware level virtualisation? 

On 28 November 2014 14:07:38 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>Lack of VT flag ;)
>
>On 28 November 2014 at 14:04, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me>
>wrote:
>
>> That would work. Vagrant supports Linux, as does VirtualBox, so what
>are
>> you waiting for?
>>
>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 14:02, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I could always try Vagrant on it ;)
>>
>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:25, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me>
>wrote:
>>
>>> Oh dear. I think the RPi is winning then in my opinion. That’s a big
>>> thing for some people.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:24, Stuart Burns
><stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thats the issue. The GPU is not the same as the Pi and no one has
>>> optimised it. No hardware accelleration atm.
>>>
>>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:23, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>> It shouldn’t suck as XBMC. The RaspberryPi can handle 1080p via
>XBMC
>>>> just fine - given the specs of the BI, it should be able to handle
>it fine,
>>>> right? Is hardware encoding supported and is there a hardware
>encoder
>>>> plugin/software provided?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:20, Stuart Burns
><stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What SD card ? ;) I need to buy one actually.
>>>>
>>>> Apart from that, I dunno what to use it for really. I was thinking
>XBMC
>>>> front end but it sucks at XBMC. My mate wanted to try it to test it
>as XMBC
>>>> but it looks like its a none starter.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:16, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me>
>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's one use for it! Just keep in mind that's my SD card ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you going to plug a USB/SATA drive into it?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 28 November 2014 13:08:59 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <
>>>>> stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah. I am now going to turn it into an apple time machine backup
>thing
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 28 November 2014 at 13:07, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good stuff mate. Glad it's working for you in the end :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 28 November 2014 13:05:30 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <
>>>>>>> stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I tried it when I got home last night, no issues with HDMI in
>the
>>>>>>>> end. It was a late night so excuse any mistakes!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/28/banana_pi_review/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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