[Chester LUG] Banana Pi review for those interested.

[Stuart Burns]

Hardware assist. Therefore VT will also help on type 2 hypervisors. It
effectively creates a new ring 0.5 within the classic ring of protection
model.

On 28 November 2014 at 14:33, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:

> 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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