On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:44 PM, <omalleys@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Niels de Vos <devos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> While I am checking the details of qemu and libvirt, I am wondering if >> there is a kernel available that has virtio support. > > I tried to get this working a couple of months ago, there are patches > related to it submitted and some of them have made it into the > mainline kernel. Im not sure if all of them have at this point or not. > (I didnt get it to work with the submitted patches so i was just going > to wait. Â:) ) I haven't tried recently. It is probably time to try > again. Okay, good to know. Do you have any specific pointers? Depending on my own needs/interest, I might understand the issue and propose updated patches (if needed). > Libvirt handles arm natively.. if you go through the whole machine > setup in libvirt, I think it is the last step, select qemu instead of > kvm, then arm will show up as an option for archtype now. Â:) However > it doesn't work with the rootfs-12 because of the options to qemu, > that showed up in the script. Yeah, I got that working now. A bug that the script fixes has been logged as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667345. I Provided a patch now, and I hope to be able to get that included soon. >> If not, I will >> need to compile my own kernel, which feels a little silly. >> https://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org does only seem to have one kernel >> package available, and that is kernel-headers which I hardly can use >> for booting. I am wondering if there are any scratch-builds available >> that have a functioning vmlinz. > > There are directions on how to rebuild the kernel for qemu.. :) > They work. :D You are the second one to mention that building my own kernel is needed. I don't doubt that the instructions work, and obviously I need to follow them. > If you want to try the alpha 13 release, you probably have to copy the > /dev dir out of the old root-fs and move it to the new one. I'll note it down and hope to find out if that is needed within a couple of weeks. Thanks, Niels _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
