The BananaPi M71 2 aka ArmSoM-Sige73 has attractive specs for use as an efficient but capable device for small-scale server deployment. As it’s performant enough to be interesting for real-world mixed workloads with some margin, it makes sense to consider it as a KVM hypervisor. Very relevant for setting up a small private cloud (雲立て or “kumotate”). This article documents preparing such board for use as a general Linux server (using Armbian), and then setting it up as a KVM hypervisor (using QEM...