> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Whalen <pwhalen@redhat.com>
> To: Sean Omalley <omalley_s@rocketmail.com>
> Cc: arm@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Qemu aarch64 install
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I tried to set up an aarch64 vm, and not really wanting to set up boot
> > server
> > and such. I just ran.
> >
> >
> > virt-install    \
> > --name Fedora_25_AArch64 --ram 2048 --arch aarch64 \
> > --disk size=8 --os-variant fedora25   \
> > --location
> > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/25/Everything/aarch64/os/
> > --extra-args
> > "inst.ks=https://pwhalen.fedorapeople.org/kickstarts/Fedora-Minimal-AArch64.ks"
> >
> > It almost worked. I already had qemu-kvm set up for a windows partition for
> > my vehicle obdII software probably with group install virtualization, then
> > I
> > installed qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64 along with edk2-aarch64
> > libguestfs-tools-c
> >
> > It bombed out at (I have the full install log including the backtrace but I
> > didn't want to spam the list with it.) It appeared to be going okay for a
> > while. It is using the 4.8.6-300 kernel, is there an SMP bug in it? Or any
> > suggestions?
>
> Unfortunately you need allocate more ram, I generally use 4096, but you might
> be able to get by with a little less. Using 2048 I can reproduce the same
> result.
>
> The wiki does use 4096 in the example, but I'll make a note of the crash as
> well.
>
>
> ---
> Thanks! I will try that!
>
>
> It stopped exactly in the same place the second time I tried. I added --vcpus
> 1.
>
>
> When I tried through the Virt-manager gui and tried an http install it got
> quite a bit further. It installed 312/485, then a similar error, then
> continued and finally died at 408/485 with a server install, I wasn't sure
> how to add the anaconda file so it was more packages.
>
>
> I figured it created a swapfile if it needed more ram. It was the same
> settings I gave win10 and what I typically give to linux x86 guests.

We lose some ram on aarch64 due to cma allocation, its something that is
actively being looked at. Anaconda also needs a fair amount of ram during
the network install to copy files. Once the install is complete, you should
be able to reduce the ram to 2048.