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.
Enjoy!
(Please don't forget that both the Fedora ARM beta release and the armvm package are very definitely at the pre-release/beta stage of maturity. In particular, updating the armvm package will REPLACE your arm VM with a new image - beware!).
[0] http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/248-.html [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM [2] http://paulfedora.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/fedora-13-arm-beta-release/
-- Chris
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
The uuid line in the xml file conflicts with the previous F12 release. IE if you are currently running the F12 release arm1 vm, you can't install the rpm because the uuid conflicts.
I changed mine to: <uuid>3dcf8d3f-0512-78c0-17b7-647732818a5e</uuid> in /var/lib/libvirt/images/f13-arm-beta1-libvirt-definition.xml
and reran virsh create /var/lib/libvirt/images/f13-arm-beta1-libvirt-definition.xml
and both booted just fine. It looks good so far!
Quoting Chris Tyler chris@tylers.info:
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.
Enjoy!
(Please don't forget that both the Fedora ARM beta release and the armvm package are very definitely at the pre-release/beta stage of maturity. In particular, updating the armvm package will REPLACE your arm VM with a new image - beware!).
[0] http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/248-.html [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM [2] http://paulfedora.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/fedora-13-arm-beta-release/
-- Chris
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