Re: Tool for generating a rootfs for foreign arch (aarch64 on x86_64, for example)?

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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:08:00PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm trying to find a way to bootstrap a Fedora rootfs from x86_64 for
> aarch64 (similar to debootstrap with "debootstrap --arch arm64 <dist>
> <targetdir>"), but I can't seem to find any.
> 
> I recall that we added qemu-user-static back in Fedora 24 for the
> purpose of being able to support this kind of thing, but do we have
> anything that leverages it to be able to enable this?

This is not an official tool, but you could do eg:

  $ virt-builder --arch aarch64 fedora-25
  $ virt-tar-out -a fedora-25.img / fedora-25.tar

I agree that a debootstrap-like official tool would be really nice,
but I've been waiting for that for many years ...

Rich.

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