The default of 384MB and 1GB failed each for me.

If you use the Debian6t VMWare Virtual Machine, you need to allocate 2GB or so of memory. # note: qemu-2.5.0 is available, but not yet tested for this example See the next section.įirst, we need to install some dependant packages I see v2.1.2 is current on Debian Jessieĭid not find a match, we need a newer build of qemu - and we need to build it from source. On newer releases, there may be a new-enough qemu. QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.5 (Debian 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard vexpress_odroid_qemu_defconfig kernel config I used for this tutorial, created zImage with it.

vexpress_defconfig default kernel config for linux-3.2.0.

launch-ubuntu Launches on rootfs-ubuntu.ext4 that you can extract from your favorite SD-Card image.

launch A more involved launch script that uses a network bridge for full networking support by sharing the host network interface.

launch-no-bridge A simple script to launch with the root file system isolated on its own virtual LAN.

rootfs-buildroot.ext2 A root file system partition image, converted from.

A root file system tarball, from the buildroot/busybox tutorial.

That machine will not build on HK sources at this point.

zImage A kernel built for vexpress-a9 machine, from linux-3.2 source.

#Create a working folder, and move into it. You can use your browser, or use web get to get the example files tarball. Sudo apt-get install libpixman-1-dev zlib1g-dev libglib2.0-dev shtool build-essential Make sure you have the neccessary programs installed These are some of the good references I used:

Boot the system with full network support.

Create a root file system partition image from a root file system tarball.

Download the example files and extract them.

The example file set will let you boot an emulated machine, without any odroid hardware.

You need a Linux host (or virtual machine) running a Debian-based distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Knoppix, etc.

It is possible to allocate a large amount of RAM to the emulated machine, and it is possible, but not necessarily faster to emulate multiple cores. You can boot root file systems meant for odroid without changes. This tutorial uses a kernel configured for a vexpress-a9 platform (TBD. Generally, your root file system doesn't care which kernel you use. Also, if you are doing certain kernel work, it can be handy. If you need to develop code for a platform that is not yet available, qemu might help. Consider qemu as another tool for your toolchest. Is a hammer good for sawing? Not so much. If you don't know what qemu is for, look around on Wikipedia.

9 Create Root File System Partition Image.

Qemu linux tutorial