Quoting Chris Tyler <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 10:47 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >> In F14 x86, we finally have the ability to add an ARM based VM via the >> libvirt management tool!! IE you can go through the GUI and set up an >> qemu based arm VM*. >> >> It defaults to the integratorcp board. But our image/kernel for F12 is >> for the versatile board.) > > The F12 ARM project doesn't provide a kernel, and the rootfs is pretty > much board-agnostic, so you just need to use/supply a suitable kernel.
The point I am trying to get at is, not whether the it will work, but what is the fastest combo so we can make that the default target in the F14 virt manager and have a matching working image/install system for it. I do update the wiki if I find something useful. I don't want to have to go back and re-figure everything out again. There is a downloadable versatile kernel along with instructions on how to make it on the wiki. The F12 image along with your workaround script do work in F14. Minus the fact when you stop the VM from the GUI it leaves a qemu process hanging. I think I got an armv7 kernel working with like the versatilea/b board, but I stopped there. I kind of lost patience with 5 hour kernel compiles and qemu crashing when I tried to add more then 128M of ram. I think there were some device issues, so some setting I was probably missing. Im not exactly an arm guru. While real hardware is better, some of us don't have 2 devices to test with, and make rootfs and kernels with and test software with. I debated for months on whether a guruplug would be fast enough for my needs, and if i would have solely looked at the results of my qemu testing, I wouldn't have purchased one. One instance is when I tried to do the mkrootfs-13 on the guruplug with the default software (apt-get yum rpmbuild etc) the checksums couldn't be verified because the versions of python were different and yum couldn't support the sha256 or whatever checksum algorithm. I had to set up a VM to do that. If you can get performance similar or faster to actual hardware, there will be more interest. If it is pretty easy to set up a VM and add it to your build system, you might actually do it like we did for openafs. (which takes like 3 hours and you cannot get it to cross compile.) Virtio and 9P support are coming for qemu arm, which would be a nice default setting, but I don't think all of the patches have made it to the mainline kernel yet. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
