Re: [Xen-devel] ARM64: XEN Domu not booting with the qemu qcow AARCH64 Ubuntu 15.04 disk

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2015, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 02.06.2015 12:35, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Jun 2015, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2 Jun 2015, Stefan Bader wrote:
> >>> On 02.06.2015 09:40, Sanjeev Pandita wrote:
> >>>> All,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am pretty new to xen . I am trying to boot DOMU with qemu qcow AARCH64
> >>>> Ubuntu 15.04 disk on Xen but I am getting the errors which link to
> >>>> "/usr/local/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386".
> >>>> Since I am working on aarch64 system the
> >>>> /usr/local/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 bin might not be present or might
> >>>> not work as expected.
> >>>
> >>> Because I am lacking hardware and feedback, the arm64 packaging is a 
> >>> rather
> >>> theoretical exercise. At least for armhf I thought qemu-system-x86 was a
> >>> dependency. That binary should provide x86 emulation on arm64, the same 
> >>> as one
> >>> could install qemu for other arches on x86.
> >>> Have you tried to install qemu-system-x86 manually?
> >>
> >> Hi Stefan,
> >>
> >> On arm and arm64 Xen still needs a qemu-system-i386 binary, just to
> >> provide the PV backends in userspace (disk, console, etc.).
> >> Unfortunately the output binary is still named "qemu-system-i386". I
> >> know that the name is misleading, but fixing it is not trivial: it
> >> requires disentangling code in QEMU in non trivial ways.
> > 
> > Just to be clear, qemu-system-i386 for ARM is the output of a QEMU build
> > on ARM with ./configure --enable-xen --target-list=i386-softmmu. It
> > could do x86 emulation, but it does not when used on Xen.
> > 
> 
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> so for Debian and Ubuntu we moved to use the standard qemu binary which is 
> build
> with xen enabled. This works on x86, but I could not verify correctness for 
> any
> arm port (due to lack of hw).

OK, from what you say it should work

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