I was able to get some way into the install using the following command line: virt-install \ -n f21 \ --machine=virt \ --cpu=host \ --vcpus=1 \ -r 2048 \ --os-variant=fedora20 \ --disk path=/dev/vg_ssd/f21,bus=virtio \ -l *see below* \ -x 'console=ttyAMA0 earlyprintk=pl011,0x9000000 ignore_loglevel' Notes: * --machine=virt is required: See my previous post on this mailing list. * bus=virtio: You must use this because IDE (the default) is not available on ARM. I couldn't work out how to use virtio-scsi, which would be my preferred choice. * console=ttyAMA0: This is the serial console (PL011) which qemu -M virt emulates. There is no graphical display AFAIK. * earlyprintk=pl011,0x9000000: This enables early kernel messages, which can be very useful. "pl011,0x9000000" tells it to write the messages directly out to the PL011 serial port at the fixed memory-mapped address 0x9000000. Finally about the location (-l flag): Unfortunately there are no composes of Fedora for aarch64. In other words there is no location URL where virt-install can download the pxeboot kernel & initramfs which it uses to net-install a guest. [Peter: Am I right about this?] We happen to have one internally at Red Hat which I'm using for testing, but that's not at a public URL unfortunately, and also it has a broken kernel that doesn't have all the patches required to run under virt. Also: I have patched my copy of qemu with this not-upstream-yet patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/375937/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
