Run Debian iso on QEMU ARMv8

Pre-installation

I used iso name is : debian-8.1.0-arm64-CD-1.iso

create img file and QEFI flash

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=flash0.img bs=1M count=64
$ LINARO_EDK2_URL=http://releases.linaro.org/15.01/components/kernel/uefi-linaro/
$ wget $LINARO_EDK2_URL/release/qemu64-intelbds/QEMU_EFI.fd
$ dd if=QEMU_EFI.fd of=flash0.img conv=notrunc
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=flash1.img bs=1M count=64
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=hda.img bs=1M count=8192

lanuch.sh:

#!/bin/sh

CDROM_IMG=debian-8.1.0-arm64-CD-1.iso
HDA_IMG=hda.img

make_cdrom_arg()
{
  echo "-drive file=$1,id=cdrom,if=none,media=cdrom" \
    "-device virtio-scsi-device -device scsi-cd,drive=cdrom"
}

make_hda_arg()
{
  echo "-drive if=none,file=$1,id=hd0" \
    "-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0"
}

HDA_ARGS=`make_hda_arg $HDA_IMG`
if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
  case $1 in
    install)
      CDROM_ARGS=`make_cdrom_arg $CDROM_IMG`
      ;;
    *)
      CDROM_ARGS=""
      ;;
  esac
fi

qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt -nographic \
  -pflash flash0.img \
  $CDROM_ARGS $HDA_ARGS -netdev user,id=eth0 \
  -device virtio-net-device,netdev=eth0

execute ./lanuch.sh install

Then will show you install screen

after install

sudo modprobe nbd max_part=63
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 hda.img
mkdir mnt
sudo mount /dev/nbd0p2 mnt #Your rootfs partition, you can have a try nbd0p1~pN


sudo cp mnt/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-53-generic .
sudo cp mnt/boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-53-generic .


sudo umount mnt
sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
rmdir mnt

trouble shotting

nbd.c:nbd_init():L723: Failed to set NBD socket

ps -ef | grep "qemu"

kill qemu-nbd process and retry

qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0xffffffc000080000

there is something wrong with the kernel, do not use vmlinux, use vmlinuz and check the kernel version

run debian on QEMU

qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -smp 1 -m 2048 \
    -pflash flash0.img \
  -drive if=none,file=hda.img,id=hd0 \
  -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
    -kernel vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-arm64 \
    -initrd initrd.img-3.16.0-4-arm64 \
    -netdev user,id=unet -device virtio-net-device,netdev=unet \
    --append "console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/vda2"

There is a ponderous way to share files between QEMU and host:

create a img for share files.

dd if=/dev/zero of=share.img bs=1M count=1024
mkfs.ext4 share.img
mkdir mnt
mount -o loop share.img mnt

add the img file on the command to boot the QEMU

qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -smp 1 -m 2048 \
    -pflash flash0.img \
    -drive file=debian-8.1.0-arm64-CD-1.iso,id=cdrom,if=none,media=cdrom \
    -device virtio-scsi-device -device scsi-cd,drive=cdrom \
  -drive if=none,file=share.img,id=hd1 \
  -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd1 \
  -drive if=none,file=hda.img,id=hd0 \
  -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
    -kernel vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-arm64 \
    -initrd initrd.img-3.16.0-4-arm64 \
    -netdev user,id=unet -device virtio-net-device,netdev=unet \
    --append "console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/vda2"

reference

http://blog.eciton.net/uefi/qemu-aarch64-jessie.html