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Can the ARM build of ubuntu 11.04 run in Qemu (on Ubuntu 11.04 amd64)?

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Can the ARM build of ubuntu 11.04 run in Qemu (on Ubuntu 11.04 amd64)?

Is it possible to run the ARM image of ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-netbook-armel+omap4 in qemu? (Also used on the Pandaboard)

I have extracted the vmlinuz-2.6.38-1208-omap4 doing the following:

fdisk -u -l -C 512 ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-netbook-armel+omap4.img

Outputs:

                                            Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-netbook-armel+omap4.img1   *          63      144584       72261    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-netbook-armel+omap4.img2          144585     5253254     2554335   83  Linux

Mount the rootfs and copy what I think is the vmlinuz file:

mkdir rootfs
sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((144585*512)) ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-netbook-armel+omap4.img rootfs
sudo cp rootfs/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-1208-omap4 .

Next I tried to start Qemu:

qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a9 -kernel ./vmlinuz-2.6.38-1208-omap4 -hda ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-netbook-armel+omap4.img -append "root=/dev/sda2 mem=1024M devtmpfs.mount=0 rw"

I only get a blank screen. I've tried to change the RAM size (256,512,...) and the root fs (/dev/sda2). So far the only kernel setting I can get output from is the vmlinuz that came with one of the qemu (ARM) samples. I also tried u-boot.bin from the boot partition but this did not work either. I feel like I am completely missing something here.

Also I would prefer not to use rootstock if possible for the sake of learning.

答案1

Accoring to QEMU IRC, QEMU currently does NOT support OMAP4, i.e., pandaboard.

答案2

The image expects an OMAP4 processor, while you're giving it a generic Cortex-A9 from the Versatile-PB board. All the peripherals are likely different, so you don't even see error output on the serial. It seems currently there is no OMAP4 support in QEMU (you can check by passing -M ? and -cpu ? to QEMU), however there was a fork with OMAP3 support: http://code.google.com/p/qemu-omap3/. I don't expect it to work, but trying won't hurt, I guess.

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