I've packaged up a preconfigured ARM VM for easy testing of Fedora-ARM on a PC. From my blog post[0]:
--- 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.noar...
* Repo config for staying up-to-date on ARM VM releases: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm/armvm/noarch/armvm-release-1-1.fc13.noar...
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.
Enjoy!
(Please don't forget that both the Fedora ARM beta release and the armvm package are very definitely at the pre-release/beta stage of maturity. In particular, updating the armvm package will REPLACE your arm VM with a new image - beware!).
[0] http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/248-.html [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM [2] http://paulfedora.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/fedora-13-arm-beta-release/
-- Chris