7:17 a.m.
Greetings Andrea,
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2020 at 1:55 PM
From: "Andrea Bolognani" <abologna(a)redhat.com>
To: daggs <daggs(a)gmx.com>
Cc: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] aarch64 vm doesn't boots
On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 20:31 +0100, daggs wrote:
> > > I'm using ubuntu 16.04 with libvirt 1.3.1, if this is a version issue,
I can upgrade to latest version.
> > > what I'm I missing?
> >
> > Your version of libvirt (as well as QEMU and virt-manager, I assume)
> > is fairly old, and aarch64 support specifically has seen quite a few
> > improvements in the meantime. On my Fedora 31 laptop, which has
> >
> > qemu-system-aarch64-4.2.0-2.fc31.x86_64
> > libvirt-5.10.0-2.fc31.x86_64
> > virt-manager-2.2.1-2.fc31.noarch
> >
> > I can run the above and, after some time, get a login prompt on the
> > serial console.
>
> I see, I'll try to bump the versions, can you share you're vm's xml
file?
This is the exact virt-install command I used:
$ virt-install \
--cpu cortex-a53 \
--name alpine-aarch64 \
--cdrom ~/Downloads/alpine-virt-3.11.2-aarch64.iso \
--disk size=8 \
--vcpus 4 \
--memory 2048 \
--os-variant alpinelinux3.8 \
--arch aarch64 \
--boot
loader=/usr/share/edk2/aarch64/QEMU_EFI-pflash.raw,loader.readonly=yes,loader.type=pflash,nvram.template=/usr/share/edk2/aarch64/vars-template-pflash.raw,loader_secure=no
The '--boot ...' part is only necessary because of an issue in
current libvirt that's already being worked on.
Here's the full XML:
<domain type='qemu'>
<name>alpine-aarch64</name>
<uuid>e4b687d8-b535-436a-bee7-fac688d3d1b4</uuid>
<metadata>
<libosinfo:libosinfo
xmlns:libosinfo="http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0"...
<libosinfo:os id="http://alpinelinux.org/alpinelinux/3.8"/>
</libosinfo:libosinfo>
</metadata>
<memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory>
<vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='aarch64' machine='virt-4.2'>hvm</type>
<loader readonly='yes' secure='no'
type='pflash'>/usr/share/edk2/aarch64/QEMU_EFI-pflash.raw</loader>
<nvram
template='/usr/share/edk2/aarch64/vars-template-pflash.raw'>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/alpine-aarch64_VARS.fd</nvram>
<boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
<gic version='2'/>
</features>
<cpu mode='custom' match='exact' check='none'>
<model fallback='allow'>cortex-a53</model>
</cpu>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-aarch64</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/alpine-aarch64.qcow2'/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x05'
slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
<readonly/>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0'
target='0' unit='0'/>
</disk>
<controller type='usb' index='0' model='qemu-xhci'
ports='15'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02'
slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</controller>
<controller type='scsi' index='0'
model='virtio-scsi'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03'
slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'/>
<controller type='pci' index='1'
model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='1' port='0x8'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x01' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='2'
model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='2' port='0x9'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='3'
model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='3' port='0xa'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='4'
model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='4' port='0xb'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x01' function='0x3'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='5'
model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='5' port='0xc'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x01' function='0x4'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='6'
model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='6' port='0xd'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x01' function='0x5'/>
</controller>
<controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04'
slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</controller>
<interface type='network'>
<mac address='52:54:00:5a:9c:da'/>
<source network='default'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01'
slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
<serial type='pty'>
<target type='system-serial' port='0'>
<model name='pl011'/>
</target>
</serial>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='serial' port='0'/>
</console>
<channel type='unix'>
<target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
<address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0'
port='1'/>
</channel>
</devices>
</domain>
thanks. I'll test it out.
Dagg.