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Description
Run an AArch64 (ARM 64) disk image as a VM on your x86 machine.
Setup
Get the media
Fedora AArch64 images are not yet supported
Fedora's AArch64 preview images expect to be run on UEFI, which is still under development for ARM/AArch64 virt usage
Fedora's AArch64 preview images expect to be run on UEFI, which is still under development for ARM/AArch64 virt usage
We will use some images from Linaro for this test:
wget http://releases.linaro.org/14.07/openembedded/aarch64/vexpress64-openembedded_lamp-armv8-gcc-4.9_20140727-682.img.gzwget http://releases.linaro.org/14.07/openembedded/aarch64/Imageunar vexpress64-openembedded_lamp-armv8-gcc-4.9_20140727-682.img.gz
How to test
This currently doesn't work
Libvirt chokes on the --cpu specification, which is needed for the VM to boot correctly. Bug or fix forthcoming
Libvirt chokes on the --cpu specification, which is needed for the VM to boot correctly. Bug or fix forthcoming
Import with virt-install
sudo virt-install \
--name aarch64-vm --ram 1024 --import \
--cpu cortex-a57 --arch aarch64 \
--boot machine=virt,kernel=Image,extra_args="root=/dev/vda2 rw rootwait mem=1024M console=ttyAMA0" \
--disk vexpress64-openembedded_lamp-armv8-gcc-4.9_20140727-682.img,bus=virtio \
--network default,model=virtio
Expected Results
Guest starts fine, seems usable.