[fedora-virt] Running Gumstix Environment As A Virtual Machine?

[Robert L Cochran]

On 12/08/2009 07:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:30:42PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>    
>> Can the Gumstix computer-on-module environment be run as a virtual machine?
>>
>> http://www.gumstix.com/
>>
>> I am wondering if there is an easily installed VM for Gumstix that will
>> allow me to avoid buying the hardware while still being able to emulate
>> it's operation. In other words, I'm hoping to save some money by not
>> getting the Gumstix hardware till I really need it.
>>      
> I thought this was unlikely, but a bit of searching reveals that there
> are people doing this, eg:
>
> http://gumstix.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Qemu
> http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Gumstix_emulation_for_QEMU
> http://www.bitmux.org/qemu.html
>
> Of course, because Gumstix is ARM-based you won't be able to use
> acceleration (KVM).  Plain QEMU seems like it will work.  Libvirt
> won't know about the non-standard QEMU parameters (like -pflash) so
> it's best to just use the qemu-system-arm command directly.
>
> For help you should go directly to the resources suggested above.
>
> Rich.
>    

Thanks Rich! I'm going to work on this a bit in Fedora 12 and see if I 
can succeed with it. I really appreciate your thoughts. I played with 
qemu once when testing FreeDOS but never did any serious work with 
virtualization. I keep getting distracted.

Bob