Re: [Qemu-discuss] How to boot the ARM server ISO on QEMU?

[Ciro Santilli]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:46 AM Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 10:18, Ciro Santilli <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/797599/how-to-run-ubuntu-16-04-arm-in-qemu
> >
> > I wanted to test out the ISO from:
> https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/arm
> > on QEMU, but haven't managed to run it, has anyone ever done that?
>
> > # Run.
> > # TODO where to put this?
> > #-drive "file=${img},format=qcow2" \
> > qemu-system-aarch64 \
> >   -M virt \
> >   -cdrom "$iso" \
> >   -cpu cortex-a57 \
> >   -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0,mac=11:11:11:11:11:11 \
> >   -m 2G \
> >   -netdev type=tap,id=net0 \
> >   -nographic \
> >   -pflash "$flash0" \
> >   -pflash "$flash1" \
> > ;
>
> Just using -cdrom isn't likely to work. I'd expect that you need
> a collection of -device options to set up some virtio devices or
> possibly some other PCI device that you can then eventually
> plug the ISO image into via -drive.
>
> libvirt knows how to attach CDROM images to a virt board setup,
> so you could look at how it does it.
>
>
Thanks for the tip, I'll try to have a look there.

I just wonder, is it really possible that a system misconfiguration
prevented the ISO from being read at all, given that I do see the start of
the installer, and it only fails after a few steps (language selection)?


> PS: I suggest you use the virtio-net-pci device rather than
> virtio-net-device which will be virtio-mmio, unless your guest
> can't cope with PCI for some reason.


> thanks
> -- PMM
>