On 31/01/2011 21:45, omalleys@xxxxxxx 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 _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
