Thanks for your prompt answers. I will look at the BeagleBoard then. About QEMU, I am a bit ilitereate about QEMU/KVM, I know only vbox and its trivial GUI, I will look if booting an ARM kernel in a QEMU guest is ok regarding perf and kernel build. I'd like to stay of xcompile.... Will see what I get. Thanx for the boards pointers. Cheers, Phi