On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:53:38PM -0600, RB wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 16:25, Ralph Green<[email protected]> wrote: > > Howdy, > > I am presently trying to build an image for a Soekris 4521 and this > > seems like an interesting approach you have here. I have the VirtualBox > > VM Manager in use and KVM installed on a test machine, but not tested > > yet. Has anyone used a similar approach with either of these > > hypervisors? If so, do you have any advice? > > Yes; the QEMU & KVM solutions are particularly useful in emulating > embedded systems, since you can specify what hardware to emulate with > extreme precision, even doing PCI passthrough for hardware devices > they can't emulate. The simplest way to transfer the images to a CF > or other media would be to use raw images ('qemu-img create -f raw' or > 'qemu-img convert -O raw'), then simply 'dd' them to the destintation > media.
just to add to this, my attempt failed with Virtualbox, there is no (well I couldn't find it) pass through of the CF device to the virtual machine. Any way I build my vm, installed stuff I wanted, installed the i486 kernel not the i686 (is i686 okay with net5501 ?) copy the image over to the CF installed and booted, all I saw was a pxe request from the 5501 - didn't have a null modem cable at home, so i have my box at work where I have a usb serial cable I will see what is happening ! Alex
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