Qubes and XEN on ARM64

Looking for Andoid as guest VM one could also come to the conclusion to run Qubes on a ARM64 cpu.
There are interesting evaluation boards like NVIDIA ORIN which are for computer vision, autonomous driving and so on. It has good graphics and a multicore ARM64 with hypervisor capabilities. Also XEN has some support for ARM with virtualization.

https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions

As Qubes is made of a bunch of python scripts, XEN and VM-Templates, theoretically one could buid an ARM64 Qubes-OS. It will be a lot of work, I guess.

There are some laptops with ARM64 cpu, so having qubes with these laptops would be interesting especially if one optimizes them to emulate android devices.

Also one could use an NVIDIA ORIN or some other high performance ARM64 board and hack it into a portable ARM64 workstation for qubes. It might be expensive, but I guess it is doable,

64GB RAM and upto 12 Cores in one ORIN can be used as high performance portable workstation.
Also as ORIN is the successor of XAVIR there might be a ORIN successor already but as we are not 1st tier automotive customers who develop the next level 5 autonomous driving platform we do not know and need to take the older crumbs that fall on the floor.
But for R&D the ORIN should be good enough. Have good cooling and power supply.

What do you think?

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