On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Chris Tyler chris@tylers.info wrote:
I've packaged up a preconfigured ARM VM for easy testing of Fedora-ARM on a PC. From my blog post[0]:
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/248-.html
The Fedora ARM secondary architecture project[1] reached a significant milestone last week with Paul's announcement of the beta 1 release[2].
Interested in ARM but lacking ARM hardware? Not a problem! Fedora includes support for ARM virtual machines, and I'm packaged up a preconfigured ARM VM for your convenience:
* ARM virtual machine package: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm/armvm/noarch/armvm-f13beta1-15.fc13.noar...
* Repo config for staying up-to-date on ARM VM releases: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm/armvm/noarch/armvm-release-1-1.fc13.noar...
The armvm package will install a preconfigured ARM virtual machine named "f13-arm-beta1" with a 2GB image and a 128MB memory footprint. Since x86_64 processors don't provide hardware support for ARM processor virtualization, the ARM VM will run slowly compared to i386/x86_64 VMs, but the performance should be tolerable on most machines (Atom netbooks excepted). You can manage the VM with virsh or virt-manager.
I wrote up some brief instructions for trying the image on a non-Fedora/non-libvirt system: http://seabright.co.nz/2011/03/01/running-the-fedora-arm-beta-on-qemu-linaro...
-- Michael