... and setting the right emulated -cpu, it boots! For reference (mainly mine), here is the qemu command line that works: kernel=3.3.4-4.fc17.armv7hl QEMUDIR=$HOME/d/qemu exec \ $QEMUDIR/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm \ -s \ -M versatilepb \ -cpu arm926 \ -nodefaults \ -nographic \ -serial stdio \ -m 256 \ -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-$kernel \ -initrd /boot/initramfs-$kernel.img \ -append 'console=ttyAMA0' Note that I built this qemu from today's upstream qemu.git, because the one we currently have compiled in Fedora fails early with this error: /builddir/build/BUILD/qemu-kvm-1.0/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c:891: tcg fatal error Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm