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Re: Can QEMU possibility run ARM Virtual Machine's on a PC that runs x86
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: Can QEMU possibility run ARM Virtual Machine's on a PC that runs x86_64 architecture? |
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Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:52:36 +0000 |
On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 at 10:39, Nerijus Baliunas
<nerijus@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:04:06 -0500 Windows ColorFul Acc
> <windowscolorful@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello, I have this ISO that is ARM supported. My real machine is AMD Ryzen
> > 5 with 16 GB of ram and 2 GPU's. But, I was wondering, can I run ARM VM's
> > on a Ryzen 5/x86_64 architecture?
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> Yes, I am running arm vm using libvirt. Screenshot from virt-manager:
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> Hypervisor Details
> Hypervisor: QEMU TCG
> Architecture: armv7l
> Emulator: /usr/bin/qemu-system-arm
> Machine Type: virt-6.2
> Firmware: Default
But an important note is that this will be using pure emulation ("TCG");
there is no hardware acceleration the way that an Arm-on-Arm or an
x86-on-x86 virtual machine would have. This might mean that the performance
of the VM is not sufficient for whatever your intended purpose is.
-- PMM