You may want to apply for one of Calxeda's TryStack instances, which would give you access to actual Cortex A9 armhfp hardware. http://www.calxeda.com/trystack/ --Mark Langsdorf Calxeda, Inc. ________________________________________ From: arm-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [arm-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry James [loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:00 AM To: Fedora ARM Subject: ARM VM on an x86_64 host Greetings, I maintain a couple of packages that currently don't build on ARM (both Lisp implementations, hmmmmm). I've got candidate fixes for both, but need to test them. I don't have ready access to any ARM hardware, so I thought I would try the qemu images at http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/. I downloaded f18arm-latest-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0.img.xz and http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18arm-latest-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0-kernel.tar.xz (judging by the sha256sums, these are actually http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18arm-20120918-002131-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0.img.xz and http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18arm-20120918-002131-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0-kernel.tar.xz). I unpacked both downloads, then did this: $ cd armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0/boot $ ./boot-vexpress+x vmlinuz-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.armv7hl initramfs-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.armv7hl.img ../../f18arm-latest-armhfp-vexpress-xfce-mmcblk0.img The VM started up and got this far: [ 6.451319] rtc-pl031 mb:rtc: setting system clock to 2012-09-26 15:54:06 UTC (1348674846) [ 6.478256] md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect [ 6.486172] md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect [ 6.530509] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. [ 6.538233] md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices. [ 6.545597] md: autorun ... [ 6.552480] md: ... autorun DONE. [ 6.567180] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2... ... and there it sits. Did I start the VM incorrectly? If not, is this a known issue and is there a set of images I should download to make forward progress? FYI, the host machine is running x86_64 F17. Thanks for answering my newbie questions. Regards, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
