On 02/28/2016 11:38 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On 2016-02-27 11:59, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:45:55AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >>> On Saturday, February 27, 2016 03:44:04 PM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 01:33:26PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> > > Should I try a newer guest? I am going to try updating to Fedora 23. >>> > >>> > Same thing. >>> > >>> > Attached is the qemu command line. In this run I'm using some >>> > hand-constructed XML, not 'virt-install --import' as before, but AFAIK >>> > all important options are the same. >>> > >>> > Rich. >>> It is currently not possible to boot a 32 bit arm vm without an external >>> kernel and initrd. I have played with having a u-boot that will work. But >>> right now you would need to construct the guest to match the specs hardcoded >>> into u-boot. It is a problem that needs to be solved >> >> Thanks Dennis. When you say you've played with u-boot, does that mean >> booting with an external u-boot binary? That would be a considerable >> improvement over external kernel. >> >> Rich. > Yes I have used u-boot as a kernel. its very rough and not really a good > experience, at least in that you have to configure the vm the same as u-boot > was built. There's uboot builds that work with qemu + arm vexpress, courtesy of Gerd: http://blog.wikichoon.com/2014/11/booting-fedora-21-arm-with-qemu-and-u.html But uboot isn't going to work with qemu-system-arm -M virt because uboot doesn't have any virtio support - Cole _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
