[Arm-dev] Arm Development Using QEMU

Thu Oct 4 13:42:13 UTC 2018
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 10/04/2018 03:51 AM, karthi mohanraj wrote:
> Hi Marcin & Johnny, 
> 
> Thanks for the reply. My requirement is to setup a VM with aarch64(64 bit arm architecture) on x86_64 host.
> 
> I have tried installing through virt-manager but i’m getting crash when starting the VM. I have attached the error below. In this, centos-7.2.img is built using virt-builder with lentos-7.2 for the aarch64. 
> 
> ##qemu-system-arm -m 1024 -machine vexpress-a9    -drive
> file=centos-7.2.img,format=raw,if=ide
> (process:12672): GLib-WARNING **: gmem.c:483: custom memory allocation
> vtable not supported
> pulseaudio: set_sink_input_volume() failed
> pulseaudio: Reason: Invalid argument
> pulseaudio: set_sink_input_mute() failed
> pulseaudio: Reason: Invalid argument
> qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x04000000
> 
> R00=00000000 R01=00000000 R02=00000000 R03=00000000
> R04=00000000 R05=00000000 R06=00000000 R07=00000000
> R08=00000000 R09=00000000 R10=00000000 R11=00000000
> R12=00000000 R13=00000000 R14=00000000 R15=04000000
> PSR=400001d3 -Z-- A svc32
> s00=00000000 s01=00000000 d00=0000000000000000
> s02=00000000 s03=00000000 d01=0000000000000000
> s04=00000000 s05=00000000 d02=0000000000000000
> s06=00000000 s07=00000000 d03=0000000000000000
> s08=00000000 s09=00000000 d04=0000000000000000
> s10=00000000 s11=00000000 d05=0000000000000000
> s12=00000000 s13=00000000 d06=0000000000000000
> s14=00000000 s15=00000000 d07=0000000000000000
> 
> if i use virtio for the drive interface. i’m getting below error.
> 
> ##qemu-system-arm -m 1024 -machine vexpress-a9 -drive
> file=centos-7.2.img,format=raw,if=virtio (process:14847): GLib-WARNING
> **: gmem.c:483: custom memory allocation vtable not supported
> pulseaudio: set_sink_input_volume() failed pulseaudio: Reason: Invalid
> argument pulseaudio: set_sink_input_mute() failed pulseaudio: Reason:
> Invalid argument qemu-system-arm: -drive
> file=centos-7.2.img,format=raw,if=virtio: No 'PCI' bus found for device
> 'virtio-blk-pci'
>

7.2 may or may not work.  The qemu then was not the same as the qemu
that is in the latest release.  Also the kernel was much older, etc.

I just installed a 7.5.1804 VM on a 7.5.1804 host vi virt-manager as a
test and it installed OK.


> On 09/30/2018 08:08 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>/W dniu 28.09.2018 o 12:42, karthi mohanraj pisze: />>/Hi All, />>//>>/I’m a newbie to arm architecture. I want to setup a development VM />>/with ARMv8 board using QEMU/KVM on CentOS based host. Is there any />>/documentation available to try out? />>//>>/Or is there any other easy way to achieve this as i need to have a />>/Development setup for CentOS? />>//>>/Please suggest me if any other better way to achieve this. />/Easiest? Install AAVMF (uefi firmware for armv8), virt-manager and />/qemu-system-arm. />//>/Run Virt-manager, choose 'new VM', open architecture chooser, select />/aarch64. Give it hdd, install iso and go. /
> You can also follow this guide to install a 32 bit VM on an aarch64
> host, if 32 bit arm is what you want to dev on:
> 
> https://www.arrfab.net/posts/2017/Sep/29/using-centos-7-armhfp-vm-on-centos-7-aarch64/
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
> 
> 
> 
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