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= Pidora QEMU =
{{Admon/important| Warning! | Please read the instructions carefully, there may be errors or wrong information, be careful if you don't know what you are doing.}}
This page is here to assist people who would like to run Pidora 2014 in a QEMU environment. This tutorial has been adapted from this website: http://xecdesign.com/compiling-qemu/
== Pidora QEMU Compose ==
Using Pidora in a QEMU environment has some important restrictions to note. The plan model that is used to allow emulate Pidora QEMU to compose new Pidora imageshas a hard coded restriction on how much RAM it can use (256 MB). This could increase speed The programs we use (livemedia-creator) for making composing new composesimages require much more RAM, add which makes the Pidora QEMU Environment a standard operating procedure for completing it, bad place to try and finally allow other users to make remixes using the Pidora 2014 package setcreate images.(See compose on Fedora Arm QEMU)
= Pidora QEMU Setup =
The two stages to setting up Pidora QEMU involve, getting all the files (kernel, image) and installing the QEMU environment.
= Pidora = Getting The Files ==<pre># Choose the directory to put both the image and the compiled QEMU Setup softwarepidora_dir=/data/pidora-qemu # Make the directory and enter itmkdir ${pidora_dir}cd ${pidora_dir} # Download the QEMU kernelwget http://xecdesign.com/downloads/linux-qemu/kernel-qemu # Download the Pidora imagewget http://pidora.ca/pidora/releases/20/images/Pidora-2014-R1.zip # Unzip the image fileunzip Pidora-2014-R1.zip </pre>
== Getting QEMU ==
There are multiple ways to get qemu-system-arm. You can compile a new version with a few select flags, or you can try installing the version that your distribution has already compiled. It is possible that the QEMU packaged in your distro was not compiled with the proper flags, however it seems to work on the latest Fedora 20.
=== Manual Compile ===If the above package does not allow you to boot Pidora through QEMU, you can try the manual instructions below. This setup is done completely on fedora 20. If will allow you are using ubuntu/debian it might be easier to use the site aboveQEMU software without actually installing it on your system (I don't like installing source files that are not managed by yum).
<pre># use whatever Choose the directory you'd likefor the compiled QEMU software
pidora_dir=/data/pidora-qemu
mkdir ${pidora_dir}/raspidev/
cd ${pidora_dir/raspidev/
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
cd ${pidora_dir}/raspidev/qemu/
# Before you can continue, you will probably need to install a bunch of build deps# I will show all Configure the packages I needed to install options for the raspberry pi./configure--target-list="arm-softmmu arm-linux-user" --enable-sdl --prefix=/make to finish successfully# Note: I do NOT make installusr
# I think Finally, compile itmake </pre> = Boot Pidora in QEMU =Make sure you run the steps in "Before Booting" and "The First Boot" before you start Pidora for the first time to avoid issues. == Before Booting =={{Admon/important| Warning! | Running the command "dd" can be dangerous and could result in data loss if not used properly.}}Make sure that you add some more space to the image file. Depending on what you might only want to do with the Pidora image you may want more space. Replace the value in the variable size, with the number of GB to increase the size of the image with.<pre># Choose the directory for the compiled QEMU softwarepidora_dir=/data/pidora-qemu # Size = GBsize=4 dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=${size} >> ${pidora_dir}/Pidora-2014-R1.img</pre> == The First Boot ==At this step we need to install boot Pidora, start first boot, and allow it to automatically resize the partition inside the image to the right size. This will only work if you already increase the size of the devel packages image in the below previous steps. <pre># Choose the directory for the compiled QEMU softwarepidora_dir=/data/pidora-qemu # This is the command.to boot the Pidora Image using the compiled version of QEMUyum install gcc${pidora_dir}/raspidev/qemu/arm-++ zlib zlibsoftmmu/qemu-devel SDL SDLsystem-devel pixman pixmanarm -devel libfdtkernel ${pidora_dir}/kernel-devel libtool glib2 glib2qemu -develcpu arm1176 -m 256 -M versatilepb -no-reboot -serial stdio -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw" -hda ${pidora_dir}/Pidora-2014-R1.img</pre> == Pidora Graphical Boot ==Run the commands below. OR
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
# Choose the directory for the compiled QEMU software
pidora_dir=/data/pidora-qemu
# This is the command to boot the Pidora Image using the compiled version of QEMU${pidora_dir}/raspidev/qemu/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-armqemu-system-arm -kernel ${pidora_dir}/kernel-qemu -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -M versatilepb -no-reboot -serial stdio -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw init=/bin/bash3" -hda ${pidora_dir}/Pidora-2014-R1.img</pre>
So you can connect with ssh by running the following command:<pre>ssh -p 2222 root@localhost # Now just close the window or shut it downConnect to raspberry pi qemu over ssh</pre>
=== Multi-User Boot With SSH ===
This is an example of the above multi user boot with the added redirect option to enable ssh.
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
# Choose the directory for the compiled QEMU software
pidora_dir=/data/pidora-qemu
# At this point it's probably a good idea This is the command to increase boot the Pidora Image using the size compiled version of the QEMU${pidora_dir}/raspidev/qemu/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -redir tcp:2222::22 -kernel ${pidora_dir}/kernel-qemu -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -M versatilepb -no-reboot -serial stdio -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw 3" -hda ${pidora_dir}/Pidora-2014-R1.img file. If you don't it might cause some errors when you start first boot and it tries to resize your partitions and filesystem.</pre>
# you should now be able to run this This is the command to start the pidora instance and get to first boot. This is the same command above, except without Pidora Image using the init=/bin/bash part.compiled version of QEMU${pidora_dir}/raspidev/qemu/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-armqemuarm -system-arm redir tcp:2222::22 -kernel ${pidora_dir}/kernel-qemu -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -M versatilepb -no-reboot -serial stdio -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw" -hda ${pidora_dir}/Pidora-2014-R1.img</pre>
= Issues =
Some issues can occur during the above processes. Some fixes are listed below.
== Manually Resize Pidora ==
{{Admon/important| Warning! | Please make sure you follow all instructions properly, do NOT run fdisk on your main system. fdisk should only be run on the pidora qemu system, otherwise you may break your system.}}
First start up Pidora QEMU in Multi-user:<pre># Assuming that you ran Choose the dd command above to increase the images size, you now need to manually modify the partitions size on directory for the compiled QEMU softwarepidora_dir=/data/pidora image.-qemu
# On This is the command to boot the Pidora Image using the pidora compiled version of QEMU${pidora_dir}/raspidev/qemu instance that is booted in multi user modefdisk /arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -kernel ${pidora_dir}/kernel-qemu -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -M versatilepb -no-reboot -serial stdio -append "root=/dev/sda>d>2>nsda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw 3" -hda ${pidora_dir}/Pidora-2014-R1.img</pre>(press enter for default)
<pre># start fdisk programfdisk /dev/sda# list all partitions, note the start location of partition 2p# delete a partitiond# select partition 22# create a new partitionn# select partition 22# select start location, default should be the start location from above<press enter for default># select end location<press enter for default>w# Shutdown write/save the pidora qemu machinechangeswreboot<pre>
resize2fs /dev/sda2
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