Re: QNX VM hang on Qemu

[Faiq Ali Sayed]

The real hardware ( xlnx-zcu102 ) is being used for our software. The software is in the development phase, and for that, I need to create a VM for simulation purposes.

Qemu has a machine type (-M xlnx-zcu102) which is supported with the board/hardware.

I have two more images for the same hardware and I can create a VM using these two images, but in the VM some basic binaries are missing like mkdir and virtual disk etc.

Now, the image for which I want to create a VM is currently working on board and everything is working fine on real hardware.

I am not sure whether I can use this image for Qemu because this is created particularly for hardware.

and giving a try to create a VM.

Your valuable suggestions in this regard will be appreciated and mean a lot to me :)

br!

Faiq

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 10:24 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 20:56, Faiq Ali Sayed <faiqueali.109@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The image I am using is currently in use for real hardware, and
> I received it from a third party/vendor.

OK, so what exactly is the real hardware it's for?

> Could you please suggest to me what I can do now?

If QEMU has a model of the hardware the image is for:
 - use that QEMU machine type (and issues with getting it running
   will be related to making sure you're loading it at the right
   address and starting it the way it wants to be started)
If QEMU does not have a model of the hardware the image is for:
 - ask your vendor for a build that targets some machine QEMU
   does have a model of

Unfortunately in general in the Arm world guest OSes are
not "runs on anything", but only "runs on the hardware
they were built to run on". This remains true under emulation.

thanks
-- PMM

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Kind Regard-

Faiq Ali Sayed