I'm sorry, it works fine for me on Fedora 32 with qemu built from GIT v5.1.0.
$ uname -r 5.8.4-200.fc32.x86_64 wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf_latest mv raspios_lite_armhf_latest raspios_lite_armhf_latest.zip unzip raspios_lite_armhf_latest.zip modprobe loop max_part=8 mkdir root sudo losetup -f 2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.img sudo mount /dev/loop0p2 root sudo mount /dev/loop0p1 root/boot sudo systemd-nspawn -D root --boot --bind $HOME/Objects/qemu/linux-user/qemu-arm:/qemu-arm Spawning container root on /raspios/root. Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container. systemd 241 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid) Detected virtualization systemd-nspawn. Detected architecture arm. Welcome to Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)! .... Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 raspberrypi console raspberrypi login: pi Password: Last login: Thu Sep 10 19:40:15 CEST 2020 on pts/0 Linux raspberrypi 5.8.4-200.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 26 22:28:08 UTC 2020 armv7l The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /qemu-arm -version qemu-arm version 5.1.0 (v5.1.0) Copyright (c) 2003-2020 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers pi@raspberrypi:~ $ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1895053 Title: Cannot nspawn raspbian 10 [FAILED] Failed to start Journal Service. Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Hi, I'm using nspawn and asked the question @systemd-devel. They redirected me to you, guessing that nspawn calls a syscall or ioctl qemu isnt aware of and can't implement properly? They were like: "Sorry, that's not my department." ^^ Maybe you can reproduce the issue or help me investigating whats wrong or put the ball right back into their court? :D Testscript: wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf_latest -o r.zip unzip r.zip LOOP=$(losetup --show -Pf *raspios-buster-armhf-lite.img) mount ${LOOP}p2 /mnt mount ${LOOP}p1 /mnt/boot systemd-nspawn --bind /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static --boot --directory=/mnt -- systemd.log_level=debug Output: see attachment System: uname -a Linux MArch 5.8.7-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat, 05 Sep 2020 12:31:32 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux qemu-arm-static --version qemu-arm version 5.1.0 systemd-nspawn --version systemd 246 (246.4-1-arch) +PAM +AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK -SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +ZSTD +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN2 -IDN +PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1895053/+subscriptions
