[fedora-arm] ARM VM on an x86_64 host

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I maintain a couple of packages that currently don't build on ARM
> (both Lisp implementations, hmmmmm).  I've got candidate fixes for
> both, but need to test them.  I don't have ready access to any ARM
> hardware, so I thought I would try the qemu images at
> http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/.  I downloaded
> f18arm-latest-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0.img.xz and
> http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18arm-latest-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0-kernel.tar.xz
> (judging by the sha256sums, these are actually
> http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18arm-20120918-002131-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0.img.xz
> and http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18arm-20120918-002131-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0-kernel.tar.xz).
>
> I unpacked both downloads, then did this:
> $ cd armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0/boot
> $ ./boot-vexpress+x vmlinuz-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.armv7hl
> initramfs-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.armv7hl.img
> ../../f18arm-latest-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0.img
>
> The VM started up and got this far:
> [   6.451319] rtc-pl031 mb:rtc: setting system clock to 2012-09-26
> 15:54:06 UTC (1348674846)
> [   6.478256] md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
> [   6.486172] md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
> [   6.530509] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> [   6.538233] md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
> [   6.545597] md: autorun ...
> [   6.552480] md: ... autorun DONE.
> [   6.567180] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2...
>
> ... and there it sits.  Did I start the VM incorrectly?  If not, is
> this a known issue and is there a set of images I should download to
> make forward progress?  FYI, the host machine is running x86_64 F17.

I would probably go with testing on the F-17 image at the moment, I
think the F-18 one has issues.

Peter