[libvirt-users] aarch64 vm doesn't boots

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2019-12-26 at 09:00 +0100, daggs wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to bring up a alpine rpi aarch64 image within kvm but I'm ended up with a stuck system, here is the xml:
[...]
> generated using this cmd:
> virt-install --cpu cortex-a53 --name alpine_rpi4_dev_machine --cdrom ./alpine-virt-3.11.2-aarch64.iso --disk path=alpine-rpi4.qcow2,size=8 --vcpus 4 --memory 2048 --os-type linux --arch aarch64
> 
> I've tried adding a vnc server and vga device but the screen stays black, qxl doesn't work.
> 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.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization