Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v3 0/8] Support qemu-system-arm vexpress-a9

I tried this patchset and it works at least as far as being able to get the libguestfs appliance up and running on ARM (with KVM) using the libvirt backend. Virtio-scsi & virtio-serial work. Some issues however: - Why is arch="armv7l"? Why not just "arm", or "armv7hl"? - I had to force the <emulator> to be /usr/bin/qemu-system-arm. Otherwise libvirt tries to run /usr/bin/qemu-kvm. May be related to RHBZ#1005581. https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/37e1e0da5acb34c902d55cde1... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1005581 - I had to add -machine kernel_irqchip=off (for KVM): https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/f8d89bc42fbd930c61e4f6a81... http://www.mail-archive.com/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg05546.html - Setting <cpu mode="host-model"/> confuses libvirt completely. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)