[fedora-arm] ARM VM on an x86_64 host

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'll give the F17 image a try.  If I seem to be doing a lot of ARM
>> work, I'll apply for one of the TryStack instances.  Thanks for the
>> offer, Mark.  Regards,
>
> Wait, I remember now.  I tried the F17 image a month or so ago, and
> got nowhere with it.  That's why I tried the F18 image.  When I boot
> the F17 image (hardfp, XFCE) from
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Versatile_Express, I
> see a bunch of systemd output, eventually culminating in this:
>
> network[383]: Determining IP information for eth0... done.
> network[383]: [  OK  ]
> [  359.961519] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
> [  359.970705] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
> [  359.976688] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
> [  359.982415] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
>
> ... and that's it.  The virtual terminals have been created, as I can
> switch between 6 of them, but 5 of them are empty black screens.  The
> original VT shows only syslog output.  I've let it sit for half an
> hour now, with no shell prompt and no X Windows showing up.  Hitting
> enter does nothing on any of the 6 VTs.  Perhaps I should try a later
> snapshot?

What happens if you connect on a serial console? I've only ever got
around to using the qemu image once or twice and it was all via a
virtual serial console. That might at least give you more details of
where it's getting to.

Peter