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CaptainBlood
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 Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 11:36 pm Post subject: Xen & qemu as dev env 4 gentoo on ARM/Rpis |
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I plan to get an ARM dev board soon.
I don't wan't to wait for it as I already have some x86 domU enough ready to migrate.
I'd rather have a emulated environment on my lappie.
I plan to have a partition that would be as close as possible to the ARM / partition.
At least a partition fs would be faster than a file.
But was is the smartest way to boot the emulator? Would it require a additional partition, and maybe a pvgrub2 chainload?
I'd love to boot domU with no more partition than for the final project on the ARM board.
I know XEN can be hard, & I'm more of a noob at qemu...
Maybe some (good) advices from you guys though 
Thks for ur attention.
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Maybe i'm going the wrong way according to wiki | Code: | Xen-HVM
Xen, a virtual machine monitor, can run in HVM (hardware virtual machine) mode, using Intel VT-x or AMD-V hardware x86 virtualization extensions and ARM Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 virtualization extension.[17] This means that instead of paravirtualized devices, a real set of virtual hardware is exposed to the domU to use real device drivers to talk to.
QEMU includes several components: CPU emulators, emulated devices, generic devices, machine descriptions, user interface, and a debugger. The emulated devices and generic devices in QEMU make up its device models for I/O virtualization.[18] They comprise a PIIX3 IDE (with some rudimentary PIIX4 capabilities), Cirrus Logic or plain VGA emulated video, RTL8139 or E1000 network emulation, and ACPI support.[19] APIC support is provided by Xen.
Xen-HVM has device emulation based on the QEMU project to provide I/O virtualization to the VMs. Hardware is emulated via a QEMU "device model" daemon running as a backend in dom0. Unlike other QEMU running modes (dynamic translation or KVM), virtual CPUs are completely managed to the hypervisor, which takes care of stopping them while QEMU is emulating memory-mapped I/O accesses. |
from.which I understand qemu ARM engine would be a daemon in domO providing emulation to requiring & so configured domU.
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CaptainBlood
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Hi again,
I decided to turn this thread to a list of milestoned how-to on my way to build a qemu environment for raspberrypis, including latest quad model.
xen + qemu + raspberry is too much a single piece of a cake for me to swallow at once.
So I will try my best reporting each & every step by step along the steep learning curse.
Now let's focus on the qemu + raspberry part.
It all started @ http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/
So I ended with a 3.10.26 kernel.
I wanted to be able to build whatever version of the kernel I wished.
So I came to http://xecdesign.com/compiling-a-kernel/ & http://xecdesign.com/compiling-a-kernel/ or https://wiki.aalto.fi/download/attachments/84751497/Building%20Linux%20Kernel%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1386937627181&api=v2
The patch file provided at xec did'nt work.
So I made my owns, one for 3.10.78 ( stable) and one for 4.0.1 (unstable) as they diverging from each other in this respect. | Code: | kernel-patch # cat linux-arm.patch-3.10.76
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-versatile/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-versatile/Kconfig
index 1dba368..82fa543 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-versatile/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-versatile/Kconfig
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ menu "Versatile platform type"
config ARCH_VERSATILE_PB
bool "Support Versatile Platform Baseboard for ARM926EJ-S"
default y
- select CPU_ARM926T
select MIGHT_HAVE_PCI
help
Include support for the ARM(R) Versatile Platform Baseboard
@@ -12,7 +11,6 @@ config ARCH_VERSATILE_PB
config MACH_VERSATILE_AB
bool "Support Versatile Application Baseboard for ARM926EJ-S"
- select CPU_ARM926T
help
Include support for the ARM(R) Versatile Application Baseboard
for the ARM926EJ-S.
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index 4118436..08861e5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ config CPU_ARM9TDMI
# ARM920T
config CPU_ARM920T
- bool "Support ARM920T processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR
+ bool "Support ARM920T processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB || ARCH_VERSATILE_AB
select CPU_32v4T
select CPU_ABRT_EV4T
select CPU_CACHE_V4WT
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ config CPU_ARM920T
# ARM922T
config CPU_ARM922T
- bool "Support ARM922T processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR
+ bool "Support ARM922T processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB || ARCH_VERSATILE_AB
select CPU_32v4T
select CPU_ABRT_EV4T
select CPU_CACHE_V4WT
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ config CPU_ARM925T
# ARM926T
config CPU_ARM926T
- bool "Support ARM926T processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB
+ bool "Support ARM926T processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB || ARCH_VERSATILE_AB
select CPU_32v5
select CPU_ABRT_EV5TJ
select CPU_CACHE_VIVT
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ config CPU_ARM926T
select CPU_CP15_MMU
select CPU_PABRT_LEGACY
select CPU_TLB_V4WBI if MMU
+ depends on !CPU_V6 && !CPU_V7
help
This is a variant of the ARM920. It has slightly different
instruction sequences for cache and TLB operations. Curiously,
@@ -358,7 +359,7 @@ config CPU_PJ4B
# ARMv6
config CPU_V6
- bool "Support ARM V6 processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB || MACH_REALVIEW_PBX
+ bool "Support ARM V6 processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB || MACH_REALVIEW_PBX || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB || ARCH_VERSATILE_AB
select CPU_32v6
select CPU_ABRT_EV6
select CPU_CACHE_V6 |
| Code: | kernel-patch # cat linux-arm.patch-4.0.1
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-versatile/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-versatile/Kconfig
index 1dba368..82fa543 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-versatile/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-versatile/Kconfig
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ menu "Versatile platform type"
config ARCH_VERSATILE_PB
bool "Support Versatile Platform Baseboard for ARM926EJ-S"
default y
- select CPU_ARM926T
select MIGHT_HAVE_PCI
help
Include support for the ARM(R) Versatile Platform Baseboard
@@ -12,7 +11,6 @@ config ARCH_VERSATILE_PB
config MACH_VERSATILE_AB
bool "Support Versatile Application Baseboard for ARM926EJ-S"
- select CPU_ARM926T
help
Include support for the ARM(R) Versatile Application Baseboard
for the ARM926EJ-S.
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index 4118436..08861e5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ config CPU_ARM9TDMI
# ARM920T
config CPU_ARM920T
- bool "Support ARM920T processor" if (ARCH_MULTI_V4T && ARCH_INTEGRATOR)
+ bool "Support ARM920T processor" if (ARCH_MULTI_V4T && ARCH_INTEGRATOR) || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB || ARCH_VERSATILE_AB
select CPU_32v4T
select CPU_ABRT_EV4T
select CPU_CACHE_V4WT
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ config CPU_ARM920T
# ARM922T
config CPU_ARM922T
- bool "Support ARM922T processor" if (ARCH_MULTI_V4T && ARCH_INTEGRATOR)
+ bool "Support ARM922T processor" if (ARCH_MULTI_V4T && ARCH_INTEGRATOR) || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB || ARCH_VERSATILE_AB
select CPU_32v4T
select CPU_ABRT_EV4T
select CPU_CACHE_V4WT
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ config CPU_ARM925T
# ARM926T
config CPU_ARM926T
- bool "Support ARM926T processor" if (!ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM || ARCH_MULTI_V5) && (ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB)
+ bool "Support ARM926T processor" if ((!ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM || ARCH_MULTI_V5) && (ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB)) || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB || ARCH_VERSATILE_AB
select CPU_32v5
select CPU_ABRT_EV5TJ
select CPU_CACHE_VIVT
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ config CPU_ARM926T
select CPU_CP15_MMU
select CPU_PABRT_LEGACY
select CPU_TLB_V4WBI if MMU
+ depends on !CPU_V6 && !CPU_V7
help
This is a variant of the ARM920. It has slightly different
instruction sequences for cache and TLB operations. Curiously,
@@ -358,7 +359,7 @@ config CPU_PJ4B
# ARMv6
config CPU_V6
- bool "Support ARM V6 processor" if (!ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM || ARCH_MULTI_V6) && (ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB || MACH_REALVIEW_PBX)
+ bool "Support ARM V6 processor" if ((!ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM || ARCH_MULTI_V6) && (ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB || MACH_REALVIEW_PBX)) || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB || ARCH_VERSATILE_AB
select CPU_32v6
select CPU_ABRT_EV6
select CPU_CACHE_V6 |
Both patches applied succesfully, though I only compiled 4.0.1 which the 2014-09-09-wheezy-raspbian.img booted on fine.
For Kernel options I just applied xec's check list with no optionnal settings.
I've had a bmc??? module not loading @ boot, but this more likely to belong to future part: Kernel Optimizing or Interfacing Quemu with host (sound - network).
At least we have a method to generate a qemu compatible arm kernel strictly generated in a x86/amd64 env.
Thks 4 ur attention |
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