Qemu install problem

[abarbarian]

Hi I am a enthusiastic novice, been running Arch for a couple of years and have a Pi on order. I would like to try out archlinux-arm through qemu.

I have managed to install qemu-kvm by using the wiki. However after scouring the net I can not find out how to install archlinuxarm-29-04-2012.img on qemu.

Have tried several different ways but am still unsuccessful.

Could someone please either give me some simple steps to follow or direct me to a web link that will allow me to install archlinuxarm-29-04-2012.img in qemu.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[WarheadsSE]

http://nasberrypi.org/2012/03/qemu-virtual-raspberrypi/

[xenoxaos]

Also note that running qemu won't be quite like running on a native pi. Personally, I would just wait until you got your pi and do all the work then so you don't have to go through the hassle twice.

[abarbarian]

Hi thanks for the replies.

I had found that site and had already tried to make the code offered work. Unfortunately even after correcting the code I could not get it to work.
Looks to me like it is meant to run on a Windows pc unless I am missing something.
I did try with the latest ArchArm image as I could not find a link to the older image as used in the code so maybe that is a problem.
All I could get for output was,

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qemu-system-arm.exe: command not found

Here are the highlighted mistakes I found, maybe it will help someone else.

qemu-system-arm.exe -M versatilepb -cpu arm1136-r2 -hda archlinuxarm-29-04-2012.img -kernel zImage-devtmpfs -m 192 -append "root=/dev/sda2# -vga std -net nic -net user

qemu-system-arm.exe -M versatilepb -cpu arm1136-r2 -hda archlinuxarm-29-04-2012.img -kernel zimage-devtmpfs -m 192 -append "root=/dev/sda2" -vga std -net nic -net user

So I am still looking for a way to install archarm for Pi on a pc running Arch 64 bit. Yes I could wait for my Pi to arrive but I may die before that happens.

[graysky]

I have managed to install qemu-kvm by using the wiki.

This is your first mistake. KVM only works if the guest OS is the same Arch as the host. What is your host OS? I ask because you are showing us windows commands, not Linux commands. It works fine for me on an Arch x86_64 host:

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$ ls
archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.img  zImage-devtmpfs

$ qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -cpu arm1136-r2 -hda archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.img -kernel zImage-devtmpfs -m 512 -append root=/dev/sda2 -net nic -net user

[crimsonredmk]

If you plan on building complex packages like kernels or graphics drivers or things like that on QEMU, be prepared for unfixable errors. To be honest, I don't quite know the point of QEMU emulating ARM - Arch Linux ARM on it will get you Bash, pacman, and...well that's it. Your existing x86/x86_64 system will have Bash, pacman...what difference does it make?