Preconfigured ARM VM available for testing on PCs

[Chris Tyler]

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

[Michael Hope]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Chris Tyler  wrote:
> 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.

I wrote up some brief instructions for trying the image on a
non-Fedora/non-libvirt system:
 http://seabright.co.nz/2011/03/01/running-the-fedora-arm-beta-on-qemu-linaro...

-- Michael

The uuid line in the xml file conflicts with the previous F12 release.
IE if you are currently running the F12 release arm1 vm, you can't  
install the rpm because the uuid conflicts.

I changed mine to:
  <uuid>3dcf8d3f-0512-78c0-17b7-647732818a5e</uuid>
in /var/lib/libvirt/images/f13-arm-beta1-libvirt-definition.xml

and reran virsh create  
/var/lib/libvirt/images/f13-arm-beta1-libvirt-definition.xml

and both booted just fine. It looks good so far!

Quoting Chris Tyler :
> 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
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