On 08/03/2014 10:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > 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. > Yep, we should make this the default, possibly for plain arm32 as well. > * bus=virtio: You must use this because IDE (the default) is not > available on ARM. This should be a small fix to teach virtinst that arm + machine=virt can do virtio. I couldn't work out how to use virtio-scsi, which > would be my preferred choice. > With qemu or virt-install? The virt-install invocation should be --controller scsi,model=virtio-scsi --disk path=FOO,bus=scsi > * 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/ > Thanks for the info! - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
