[libvirt-users] aarch64 vm doesn't boots

[daggs]

Greetings Andrea,

> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2020 at 11:37 AM
> From: "Andrea Bolognani" <abologna at redhat.com>
> To: daggs <daggs at gmx.com>, libvirt-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] aarch64 vm doesn't boots
>
> 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.
>

I see, I'll try to bump the versions, can you share you're vm's xml file?

Thanks,

Dagg