Tag: QEMU

How to launch ARM aarch64 VM with QEMU from scratch

  • Haco
  • February 5, 2025
  • 3 min read

The below instructions will allow for bringing up an ARM VM from scratch. To launch an aarch64 VM we first need to install a few dependencies, including QEMU and the qemu-efi-aarch64 package, which includes the efi firmware. apt-get install qemu-system-arm apt-get install qemu-efi-aarch64 apt-get install qemu-utils Create the flash images with the correct sizes. dd if=/dev/zero of=flash1.img bs=1M count=64 dd if=/dev/zero of=flash0.img bs=1M count=64 dd if=/usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd of=flash0.img conv=notrunc Create a dedicated directory (folder) on your host system to contain this virtual machine. Download the latest  “Virtual” ISO file for…

RISC-V simulation with Qemu

  • Haco
  • September 27, 2024
  • 5 min read

Installation of Qemu On the Qemu website, you can find a lot of information on how to get it running. But for the specific purpose of this tutorial, a few important extra steps are needed. In order to use the user mode simulation, your host system must be Linux. I recommend installing from source as described on this  using configure with --target-list= riscv32-linux-user,riscv64-linux-user, riscv32-softmmu,riscv64-softmmu as a configuration. I assume you have a RV toolchain running, if not,  is how. User-Mode The simplest way of getting an environment for RV programming is…