Part 1 of 2. This part covers getting a kernel that can actually host virtual machines.
Why bother
I wanted a box that could run a dozen Android instances at once — real ones, not emulated-on-x86 ones — to benchmark peer-to-peer sync behaviour at scale. Native arm64 Android on native arm64 silicon, no translation layer, enough cores and RAM to make the peer count interesting. The Minisforum MS-R1 looked ideal. It's built on the CIX P1 ("Sky1"),…
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