[fedora-arm] Trying to run Fedora-ARM as a virtual machine

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:44 PM,  <omalleys at msu.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Niels de Vos <devos at fedoraproject.org>:
>
>> While I am checking the details of qemu and libvirt, I am wondering if
>> there is a kernel available that has virtio support.
>
> I tried to get this working a couple of months ago, there are patches
> related to it submitted and some of them have made it into the
> mainline kernel. Im not sure if all of them have at this point or not.
> (I didnt get it to work with the submitted patches so i was just going
> to wait.  :) ) I haven't tried recently. It is probably time to try
> again.

Okay, good to know. Do you have any specific pointers? Depending on my
own needs/interest, I might understand the issue and propose updated
patches (if needed).


> Libvirt handles arm natively.. if you go through the whole machine
> setup in libvirt, I think it is the last step, select qemu instead of
> kvm, then arm will show up as an option for archtype now.  :) However
> it doesn't work with the rootfs-12 because of the options to qemu,
> that showed up in the script.

Yeah, I got that working now. A bug that the script fixes has been
logged as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667345. I
Provided a patch now, and I hope to be able to get that included soon.


>> If not, I will
>> need to compile my own kernel, which feels a little silly.
>> https://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org does only seem to have one kernel
>> package available, and that is kernel-headers which I hardly can use
>> for booting. I am wondering if there are any scratch-builds available
>> that have a functioning vmlinz.
>
> There are directions on how to rebuild the kernel for qemu.. :)
> They work.

:D You are the second one to mention that building my own kernel is
needed. I don't doubt that the instructions work, and obviously I need
to follow them.


> If you want to try the alpha 13 release, you probably have to copy the
> /dev dir out of the old root-fs and move it to the new one.

I'll note it down and hope to find out if that is needed within a
couple of weeks.

Thanks,
Niels