22.04 LTS with virt-manager and arm64

[Jerry Geis]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 12:32 PM Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, dem 12.04.2023 um 11:25 -0400 schrieb Jerry Geis:
> > I am trying to run the downloaded raspberry pi image for arm64.
> >
> > I have used virt-manger before for everything but arm - trying to get
> > it working.
> >
> > When it boots - it drops me to the interactive shell.
> >
> > Did I miss something ?   I made sure to select Architechture aarch64.
> >
> the RPi has a proprietary bootoader you can not easily emulate (it
> actually does *not* boot the CPU at all but the GPU only via its binary
> blob graphics driver ...which later on then starts the ARM processor),
> i dont think there is a way to boot these images in any VM
> implementation ...
>
> ... the Pi actually only exists because broadcom had to get rid of a
> stock of leftover settop-box SoCs from a failed project that they gave
> the Pi foundation for free back then to save stocking costs, thus the
> weird HW architecture with all focus on the GPU...
>
> ciao
>         oli
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Thanks Oliver - well that is unfortunate. No way to simulate the arm on
Ubuntu? Perhaps without Virt-manager then ?

Jerry
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