[release-notes] pulled in wiki content about virtualizing ARM on x86

Pete Travis immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 19 20:10:31 UTC 2013


commit 24e874e636d6367437c809e865e2ec9d1d2158dc
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 19 14:10:29 2013 -0600

    pulled in wiki content about virtualizing ARM on x86

 en-US/Virtualization.xml |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Virtualization.xml b/en-US/Virtualization.xml
index d269121..d8ed038 100644
--- a/en-US/Virtualization.xml
+++ b/en-US/Virtualization.xml
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@
     </title>
     <para />
 -->
+
+ <section id="virtualization-arm_emulation">
+   <title>ARM emulation on x86 Hosts</title>
+   <para>
+     Changes have been made to have smoother emulation of ARM guest virtual machines running on x86 hosts using standard <application>libvirt</application> tools, including <command>virsh</command>, <application>virt-manager</application> and <command>virt-install</command>. <application>qemu</application> has an ARM emulator that works well and is actively used in the Fedora ARM effort. However <application>libvirt</application> and <application>virt-manager</application> currently have issues launching qemu-system-arm VMs, mostly by encoding x86 assumptions in the generated command line that cause <command>qemu-system-arm</command> to fail to start. Changes have been made to fix this issue. More information can be found at <ulink url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_ARM_on_x86" />
+   </para>
+ </section>
+
+	 
 <section id="virtualization-libvirt-acl">
   <title>Libvirt Client Access Control</title>
   <para>


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