[fedora-arm] Trying to run Fedora-ARM as a virtual machine

[Gordan Bobic]

On 31/01/2011 21:45, omalleys at msu.edu wrote:

>>>> ARM emulation using qemu on x86 is OK for minor things to begin with,
>>>> but performance is quite crippling.
>>>>
>>>> As for development on ARM and virtualization - I suggest you look at
>>>> Linux vserver. I have it pretty much working, but there are a couple of
>>>> bugs in the tools stemming from the fact that dietlibc isn't quite bug
>>>> free on ARM yet, but it's getting close (see this bug:
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667852 )
>>>
>>> Well, my laptop runs libvirt and I m quite happy with that. I'll stick
>>> with libvirt/qemu as that does not interfere with my 'production' VMs.
>>>
>>> Maybe you understood my question wrong... Gol i to do some
>>> development/tests on my x86_64 laptop, and then run the resulting
>>> packages on the hardware ARM.
>>
>> I get it, but ARM emulated on x86 will run at a tiny fraction of native
>> speed. You may well find it completely unusable.
>
> It is very slow compared to real hardware. However, some of the
> performance issue is the fact the default kernel and the default board
> only uses 128M of ram at least in F12.
 >
> Also, iirc we didn't find any alignment errors with the qemu-arm test.

The emulation probably transparently fixes them.

Gordan