----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Whalen <pwhalen(a)redhat.com>
To: Sean Omalley <omalley_s(a)rocketmail.com>
Cc: arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Qemu aarch64 install
----- Original Message -----
> I tried to set up an aarch64 vm, and not really wanting to set up boot
> server
> and such. I just ran.
>
>
> virt-install \
> --name Fedora_25_AArch64 --ram 2048 --arch aarch64 \
> --disk size=8 --os-variant fedora25 \
> --location
>
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/25/Everything/...
> --extra-args
>
"inst.ks=https://pwhalen.fedorapeople.org/kickstarts/Fedora-Minimal-AArch64.ks"
>
> It almost worked. I already had qemu-kvm set up for a windows partition for
> my vehicle obdII software probably with group install virtualization, then
> I
> installed qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64 along with edk2-aarch64
> libguestfs-tools-c
>
> It bombed out at (I have the full install log including the backtrace but I
> didn't want to spam the list with it.) It appeared to be going okay for a
> while. It is using the 4.8.6-300 kernel, is there an SMP bug in it? Or any
> suggestions?
Unfortunately you need allocate more ram, I generally use 4096, but you might
be able to get by with a little less. Using 2048 I can reproduce the same
result.
The wiki does use 4096 in the example, but I'll make a note of the crash as
well.
---
Thanks! I will try that!
It stopped exactly in the same place the second time I tried. I added --vcpus
1.
When I tried through the Virt-manager gui and tried an http install it got
quite a bit further. It installed 312/485, then a similar error, then
continued and finally died at 408/485 with a server install, I wasn't sure
how to add the anaconda file so it was more packages.
I figured it created a swapfile if it needed more ram. It was the same
settings I gave win10 and what I typically give to linux x86 guests.
We lose some ram on aarch64 due to cma allocation, its something that is
actively being looked at. Anaconda also needs a fair amount of ram during
the network install to copy files. Once the install is complete, you should
be able to reduce the ram to 2048.
Paul
>
>
> Sean
>