Would like to try to use OS v.021 in a virtual machine to understand it more. Saw this thread
where SVIN_24 seems to have gotten it to work. Is there a more recent or more explanatory post on this right now or is this the recommended path currently?
All advice welcome.
if you dont mind the kernel
you can start the clockworkpi os v0.21 with qemu and debian net boot kernel
qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a9 -m 512 -kernel vmlinuz -initrd initrd.gz -dtb vexpress-v2p-ca9.dtb -drive file=./armdisk.raw,if=sd -append "console=ttyAMA0,115200 root=/dev/ram" -serial stdio -net nic,model=lan9118 -net user
just a tip,not fullly tested
This does NOT work. I have tried using the debian net boot kernel and replicated exactly as you have it here, I have also tried converting the image to a qcow2, I will have to try the method posted elsewhere where its more or less merged with a debian image, but I don’t feel it should be that much work to get this working. the fact that I can’t even get the kernel to boot seems to be the issue. I will come back to this once i have it at least semi working and will likely put together a tutorial for v0.3
Thanks Ducky. Please message me with your progress on this.
so update, there seems to be issues getting the a7 working in qemu. I have tried the kernel in the 0.3 image, I have tried the arm and the arm64 debian kernels and it does not boot. I am now looking into the kernel itself (the uboot image) to see what I’m missing. the machine type of vexpress-a9. so far it’s looking the the method of creating a debian arm64 virtual machine with the same userID and then copying the home folder over might be the only way thus far. I will do that and if its working upload the image as well as instructions on use/etc for everyone, but I will continue to pluck away at getting the actual proper image to boot. as a semi side note, looking into how a uImage is created i think it itself might be an image that contains the kernel and initrd. more research required.
another update. the entire build seems to not want to work. I have determined that its not just a kernel issue but it seems there’s some stuff done to pack up the kernel with the sunxi image tool. I’m going to attempt to “rewind” that and see if i can get a usable kernel from that. it also seems like there is no init.rd as it’s a live mounted system from the start and that does simplify things if I’m right. hope to have more information soon.
and of course another update. extracting the uImage reveals just a kernel which is not very helpful. I am going to go about creating a complete setup using the debian VM i created. it wont be the same, but it’s something developers can use.