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Namhyeon, Go edited this page Nov 13, 2024 · 4 revisions

For non-native

Note: Non-native virtualization does not support KVM acceleration (Do not use --device /dev/kvm).

ARM

$ touch /hdimages/armhf.qcow2
$ docker run -it --rm \
    --name qemu-container-arm \
    --user="$(id --user):$(id --group)" \
    -v /hdimages/armhf.qcow2:/tmp/hda.qcow2 \
    -v /bootimages/initrd-debian11-armhf.gz:/tmp/initrd.gz \
    -v /bootimages/vmlinuz-debian11-armhf:/tmp/vmlinuz \
    -e QEMU_HDA=/tmp/hda.qcow2 \
    -e QEMU_HDA_SIZE=20G \
    -e QEMU_CPU=1 \
    -e QEMU_RAM=1024 \
    -v /cdimages/debian-11.1.0-armhf-netinst.iso:/tmp/debian.iso:ro \
    -e QEMU_CDROM=/tmp/debian.iso \
    -e QEMU_BOOT='order=d' \
    -e QEMU_PORTS='2375 2376' \
    -e QEMU_ARCH='arm' \
    -e QEMU_MACHINE='virt' \
    -e QEMU_KERNEL=/tmp/vmlinuz \
    -e QEMU_INITRD=/tmp/initrd.gz \
    gnh1201/qemu:6.1

MIPS

$ touch /hdimages/mips64el.qcow2
$ docker run -it --rm \
    --name qemu-container-mips64el \
    --user="$(id --user):$(id --group)" \
    -v /hdimages/mips64el.qcow2:/tmp/hda.qcow2 \
    -v /bootimages/debian11-mips64el-malta/initrd.gz:/tmp/initrd.gz \
    -v /bootimages/debian11-mips64el-malta/vmlinuz-5.10.0-9-5kc-malta:/tmp/vmlinuz \
    -e QEMU_HDA=/tmp/hda.qcow2 \
    -e QEMU_HDA_SIZE=20G \
    -e QEMU_CPU=1 \
    -e QEMU_RAM=1024 \
    -v /cdimages/debian-11.1.0-mips64el-netinst.iso:/tmp/debian.iso:ro \
    -e QEMU_CDROM=/tmp/debian.iso \
    -e QEMU_BOOT='order=d' \
    -e QEMU_PORTS='2375 2376' \
    -e QEMU_ARCH='mips64el' \
    -e QEMU_MACHINE='malta' \
    -e QEMU_CPUMODEL='5KEc' \
    -e QEMU_KERNEL=/tmp/vmlinuz \
    -e QEMU_INITRD=/tmp/initrd.gz \
    -e QEMU_APPEND='console=ttyS0' \
    gnh1201/qemu:6.1

If ARM or MIPS is selected, vmlinuz(kernel image) and initrd are required. Please refer to this article and proceed.

Manually bootloader activation

When using the non-native (e.g. ARM, MIPS) platform, the bootloader must be extracted manually after the installation is completed.

$ qemu-img convert armhf.qcow2 armhf.raw
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp
$ sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((2048 * 512)) armhf.raw /mnt/tmp
$ cd /mnt/tmp/boot

Then, copy the initrd and vmlinuz files to an external directory. And load using QEMU_KERNEL and QEMU_INITRD variables.

Manually root activation

When using the non-native (e.g. ARM, MIPS) platform, it was confirmed that the settings were not reflected in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Please refer to the two links below and set them up manually.

If you have any questions, contact me.

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