On 02/28/2016 11:38 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On 2016-02-27 11:59, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:45:55AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> On Saturday, February 27, 2016 03:44:04 PM Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 01:33:26PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> > > Should I try a newer guest? I am going to try updating to Fedora 23.
>> >
>> > Same thing.
>> >
>> > Attached is the qemu command line. In this run I'm using some
>> > hand-constructed XML, not 'virt-install --import' as before, but
AFAIK
>> > all important options are the same.
>> >
>> > Rich.
>> It is currently not possible to boot a 32 bit arm vm without an external
>> kernel and initrd. I have played with having a u-boot that will work. But
>> right now you would need to construct the guest to match the specs hardcoded
>> into u-boot. It is a problem that needs to be solved
>
> Thanks Dennis. When you say you've played with u-boot, does that mean
> booting with an external u-boot binary? That would be a considerable
> improvement over external kernel.
>
> Rich.
Yes I have used u-boot as a kernel. its very rough and not really a good
experience, at least in that you have to configure the vm the same as u-boot
was built.
There's uboot builds that work with qemu + arm vexpress, courtesy of Gerd:
http://blog.wikichoon.com/2014/11/booting-fedora-21-arm-with-qemu-and-u.html
But uboot isn't going to work with qemu-system-arm -M virt because uboot
doesn't have any virtio support
- Cole