I discovered today that a hosting provider in Europe offers very cheap ARMv7 and ARMv8 cloud servers.
https://www.scaleway.com/ The following observations are from a few hours of testing and may not be correct. It appears the ARM servers are NOT virtualized but run on special miniature servers. The ARMv7 uses a Marvell 385 SOC and the ARMv8 uses a Cavium SOC. Marvell is in the process of buying Cavium. Opensuse does not generally appear among the offered distributions. The exception to this was opensuse 13.2 on the ARMv7 system. I was able to upgrade it to 42.3 but they don't use the kernel from my image. I guess they need a custom kernel. Their kernel has many limitations. It doesn't support iptables so you can't have a firewall. I am hoping someone can convince them to offer an ARMv8 Leap 42.3 with a decent kernel. Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
