[Arm-dev] Boot Raspberry Pi image in KVM on CentOS 7

[Fabian Arrotin]

On 21/08/18 21:53, Brenton Earl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to boot the Raspberry Pi image in qemu KVM on CentOS7.  I
> converted the image to a qcow2 file system, extracted the /boot
> directory and tried to boot.
> 
> I am using the following command:
> 
> $ sudo virt-install --name centos7_armhfp \
>  --memory 4096  \
>  --boot kernel=/var/lib/libvirt/armhfp-boot/boot/vmlinuz-4.14.28-
> 201.el7.centos.armv7hl,initrd=/var/lib/libvirt/armhfp-
> boot/boot/initramfs-4.14.28-
> 201.el7.centos.armv7hl.img,kernel_args="console=ttyAMA0 rw
> root=/dev/sda3" \
>  --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Generic-
> Minimal-1708-guest.qcow2 \
>  --import \
>  --arch armv7l \
>  --machine virt \
>  --os-variant centos7.0
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> Starting install...
> ERROR    unsupported configuration: qemu-xhci not supported in this
> QEMU binary
> Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
> If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
>   virsh --connect qemu:///system start centos7_armhfp
> otherwise, please restart your installation.
> 
> 
> I am following this tutorial that should technically work on all
> architectures if modified to fit:
> 
> https://arrfab.net/posts/2017/Sep/29/using-centos-7-armhfp-vm-on-centos
> -7-aarch64/
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  I searched the web a bit but found no
> significant results.
> 
> I tried to boot with the generic and the pi images with the same error
> output.  I feel like I am missing something simple because I am used to
> using virt-manager instead of the command line to install virtual
> machines.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Just to be sure : you're trying that on a aarch64 kvm host, not on a
x86_64 one, right ? (I prefer asking the obvious thing first)


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Fabian Arrotin
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