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Prerequisitesįollow the instructions here to initialize a new built from source OpenEmbedded workspace containing all of the required sources and tools. These instructions were primarily written for the Armv8 Base Platform FVP but are easily adapted to other platforms such as the Juno development board.
QEMU SYSTEM ARM HOW TO
Giving the machine only 256MB RAM instead of 512MB RAM seems to make this issue go away too.This article outlines how to utilize virtualization on Armv8 systems using QEMU. Qemu: hardware error: pl011_read: Bad offset 101f1018 LibvirtError: operation failed: could not query memory balloon allocationĪnd in my /var/log/libvirt/ It can obviously not cope with the 512MB of RAM I gave it. There are more limitations with the emulated versatileab machine.
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An alternative would be a usb-serial, but at the moment, virt-manager does not offer this option (you can probably configure it with virsh edit or virsh define though).
QEMU SYSTEM ARM SERIAL
The Serial device in the Virtual Machine needs to be removed. The emulated hardware versatileab does not have an ISA-bus, therefore -device isa-serial can not work.
QEMU SYSTEM ARM PATCH
However, packages are temporary available in case someone wants to try this solution.Ī post to the qemu-devel list will show if a patch for qemu, or rather libvirt is preferred.įixing the name of the PCI-bus is not the only thing I had to do before I could start my Fedora-ARM VM, though. This change will break any existing scripts/tools that pass bus=pci on the command line, so the solution is not the best. It seems easy to rename the PCI-busses to pci.0. Under qemu-kvm/hw/*.c there are some uses of pci_register_bus() where pci as name for the PCI-bus is passed. The virtual hardware is constructed by qemu-kvm/hw/*.c and depends on the type of machine that is created. Depending on the machine that is being emulated the hardware is 'connected' when the machine is created. Unfortunately it is unclear to me how qemu-kvm constructs the virtual hardware, the qemu-system-* are more transparent. I would assume that at least the busses have the same names for emulated hardware, so either bus=pci or bus=pci.0 should work with any qemu-* command. The function qbus_find_recursive() can be used to breakpoint and to check the names of the available busses ( bus->name). Most noticible (for me) seems to be the name of the PCI-bus, on qemu-system-arm it is pci and on qemu-kvm it is pci.0.
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With help from gdb and manually executing qemu-system-arm and comparing it with qemu-kvm, it seems that the virtual hardware is configured differently. For Fedora 45 was filed against libvirt for PPC emulation. Obviously there are loads of others hitting similar issues. Manually starting qemu-system-arm with some adjusted bus= parameters seems to start the VM. This really does not seem to work out of the box :-( Reading the script reveals that bus=pci.0 gets replaced by bus=pci. Qemu-system-arm: -device lsi,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5: Bus 'pci.0' not found So, of course I tried to start my VM without the script first: This was a note for Fedora 13, I'm running Fedora 14. Unfortunately there is already a mentioning that qemu-system-arm gets wrong arguments and a script that functions as a (temporary) workaround should be used. The Fedora Wiki provides with a nice HowTo a good start. As I use libvirt and virt-manager for work, running an ARM-emulation this way is my preferred setup. Being ill a couple of days and have the need to do something (more or less) productive, I thought of giving Fedora-ARM a go.