Lars, On Fri, Jun 28, 2013, at 01:44 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
> VirtualBox is rather easy to use and a little too wide spread. What > needs some love is Qemu so that more people can start working with ARM > and PPC. I have used QEMU too, but that wasn't the topic I was invited to do a class on :) I have a web page (a bit old now) about some work I did on QEMU emulating ARM and building some packages on that, at http://crosswire.org/~jmarsden/balsa-on-arm which includes a scripted approach to setting up QEMU for ARM on a Ubuntu or Lubuntu base OS. If there is enough interest, I'd happily update that for current Ubuntu versions and give a class on it. But when Raspberry Pi is $35, most people needing something to play with ARM on just buy a Pi instead of using QEMU, these days... but Ubuntu chose not to support ARMv6 CPUs, so we can't use that for Ubuntu on ARM testing, sadly. For that you need a $250 Chromebook or a $200 Nextus 7. Does QEMU have an "armhf" (ARM v7 with hardware floating point) emulation mode now? I don't think it did back when I worked on that stuff. I am not convinced using QEMU for PPC would help a lot, given many of the issues we are seeing seem to be related to specific hardware (video cards, sound cards, NICs) on older Apple machines. Do you think it would really be useful to do ISO install testing of Lubuntu PPC on a QEMU PPC emulated machine? Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
