qemu cannot resolve * , a dependency of "qemu-system-x86

[umbrellarunaround]

Hi archlinux arm

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I get these warnings when I install qemu on a new archlinux arm 64 rpi4 8Gb system. Do you know what the problem is?

root@alarm alarm]# pacman -S qemu
:: There are 3 providers available for qemu:
:: Repository extra
1) qemu-base 2) qemu-desktop 3) qemu-full

Enter a number (default=1): 1
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libbpf.so=0-64", a dependency of "qemu-system-x86"
warning: cannot resolve "edk2-ovmf", a dependency of "qemu-system-x86"
warning: cannot resolve "seabios", a dependency of "qemu-system-x86"
warning: cannot resolve "qemu-system-x86", a dependency of "qemu-base"

[umbrellarunaround]

: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libbpf.so=0-64' required by qemu-system-x86
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'edk2-ovmf' required by qemu-system-x86
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'seabios' required by qemu-system-x86
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'qemu-system-x86' required by qemu-base

[robg]

This is a consequence of some upstream changes to the QEMU package that have not yet been ported to ALARM. See this thread for more information.

[slashdolt]

qemu-base installs all the x86 stuff, which you probably don't need or want. I installed just qemu-system-aarch64 and I'm emulating aarch64 machines. This may work with qemu-system-arm too, but I haven't tried it, YMMV.

qemu-system-aarch64 depends on edk2-armvirt. This has been replaced with the split edk2-arm and edk2-aarch64 packages, so you'll have to manually download and install edk2-armvirt from https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/e/edk2-armvirt/. Fortunately these are all noarch packages so pulling them from the x86 repos is an option.

I'm using edk2-armvirt-202111-1-any.pkg.tar.zst and it works fine.

As for the libbpf dependency, I'm not sure. I have libbpf 0.8.1-1 installed, from the libbpf package. Try just "pacman -S libbpf" and it might get you there.

So to run aarch64 VMs: install libbpf, download and install (with pacman -U) edk2-armvirt, and then install qemu-system-aarch64.

Let me know if you absolutely must install qemu-base, there's a way to do that too.

EDIT: I see the latest version of core/libbpf is 1.0.1-1. This might be too new for the 7.0 version of qemu. Maybe you can find an older version if so. Good luck.

EDIT EDIT: DON'T use a newer version of the OVMF files from a newer edk2 package. It won't work. For example, you can install the edk2-aarch64 package, but if you use the UEFI files it provides, qemu won't boot. Use an older edk2-armvirt package as indicated above.

[umbrellarunaround]

Hi all thanks very much for the guidance. I'll give it it go.