Peter: Here are the patches that I'm carrying on top of current Fedora Rawhide that are needed to make virt thingamabobs work. * qemu aarch64: Allow -kernel option to take a gzip-compressed kernel https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/threads.html#01786 Fully reviewed but not upstream yet. This is required so that the -kernel option can read a standard (gzipped) aarch64 kernel. * kernel ,-- | From 8f9ccea418065d59e43701cf7bbfc7410aaf12e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 | From: Don Dutile | Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 19:34:30 -0400 | Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Change rtc-efi from module to always built-in `-- This patch is required so that we can use the kernel option `efi-rtc=noprobe' to disable probing of the EFI RTC when EFI is not available. If the EFI RTC is probed in a VM it causes a kernel panic. Currently this is not upstream. I believe that Mark Salter is working on a better, upstreamable version of this patch. * kernel https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123327 Make the dmesg buffer larger. The current one is annoyingly small even when trying to capture a simple stack trace. * kernel https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123882 Enables the PL031 RTC in VMs. Justification is outlined in the BZ. This is required for libguestfs, and is a good idea in general. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As well as all that, there is the problem of lack of EFI support inside virtual machines, and that's not apparently going to be solved any time soon. So see this thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virt-tools/8635 However it would be nice to have a lorax compose of Fedora 21/22 for aarch64 even if it was broken at first. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
