I've packaged up a preconfigured ARM VM for easy testing of
Fedora-ARM
on a PC. From my blog post[0]:
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http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/248-.html
The Fedora ARM secondary architecture project[1] reached a significant
milestone last week with Paul's announcement of the beta 1 release[2].
Interested in ARM but lacking ARM hardware? Not a problem! Fedora
includes support for ARM virtual machines, and I'm packaged up a
preconfigured ARM VM for your convenience:
* ARM virtual machine package:
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm/armvm/noarch/armvm-f13beta1-15.fc13.n...
* Repo config for staying up-to-date on ARM VM releases:
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm/armvm/noarch/armvm-release-1-1.fc13.n...
The armvm package will install a preconfigured ARM virtual machine named
"f13-arm-beta1" with a 2GB image and a 128MB memory footprint. Since
x86_64 processors don't provide hardware support for ARM processor
virtualization, the ARM VM will run slowly compared to i386/x86_64 VMs,
but the performance should be tolerable on most machines (Atom netbooks
excepted). You can manage the VM with virsh or virt-manager.
I wrote up some brief instructions for trying the image on a
non-Fedora/non-libvirt system: