Hi everyone, I’m trying to use QEMU (qemu-system-x86_64) to emulate an x86 virtual machine on an ARM host : a Samsung Chromebook with Cortex-A15 CPU.
My Chromebook boots a Linux (kernel version 3.13) from an SD card. I have tried to create a new Debian virtual machine, by using a netinst iso file, but after the ‘Debian install menu’, nothing happens, the VM screen stays black forever, and gives no error outputs… I have also tried with an Ubuntu iso, and with qemu-system-i386, but no more success. I am using QEMU 2.0, which I compiled on my Chromebook. Beside, I have tried to boot an x86 VM previously created with an x86 host. So i pass to QEMU the kernel image, the initrd file and kernel boot options. I didn’t succeed in that either, but I am not sure if this is even possible ? My concern is that QEMU has quite a strange behaviour : Sometimes it’s having a Segmentation fault (core dumped) really early in the execution, sometimes it starts to boot the kernel, and has the segmentation fault later. Also sometimes when booting the kernel, it hangs with some errors (udev, timer).. but this is not reproducible easily. I would like to have any thoughts or ideas you may have on what i am doing. And also, what are the ways to have more debug information from QEMU ? Thanks ! Violaine.
