[virt-tools-list] Emulating raspberry pi (arm1136-r2) in virt-manager?

[Simon Lambourn]

This is looking a bit more complicated than I thought... I now 
understand that I can't simply define the ARM machine in xml and define 
it using virsh, as the CPU type (arm1136-r2) is rejected by libvirt 
which can't test if it's valid or not.

So I think what Cole and Martin are suggesting is that I define a dummy 
emulator (the wrapper script) which plays with the arguments passed by 
libvirt and then calls the real emulator qemu-system-arm. I had a quick 
go at this but I couldn't work out where to put the wrapper script.  I 
tried putting a wrapper (qemu-system-pi - written in python) in 
/usr/bin, but virsh define couldn't find it.

I also get the impression that libvirt calls the wrapper during define, 
to validate the arguments?   So these calls also have to be caught and 
passed to the real emulator.

Overall I am tempted to stick with my original method of simply issuing 
the qemu-system-arm command directly from a script, but if anyone can 
suggest how I can get the wrapper to be found - or point me to an 
example of one - then I will keep trying.  Thanks for all the help and 
encouragement so far.

Simon