[ARMedslack] nfs and qemu install

[stanley garvey]

On Jun 13, 2012 09:59 "Rick Miles" <frmrick at aapt.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:40 +1000, Rick Miles wrote:
> > 
> > Qemu-install.txt just says
> > Choose '3 - Install from NFS (Network Filesystem)'
> > 
> I plan on eventually running this on a raspberrypi :<)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Hi,
> the Qemu-install.txt is quite old and you may save yourself some
> headaches by using VDE.
> see:
> alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:vde
> This is how I Installed armed slack on qemu.
> compile and install vde
> use a script like this to set up networking: (As root)
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> modprobe tun
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> vde_switch -tap tap0 -daemon
> chmod -R a+rwx /var/run/vde.ctl
> ifconfig tap0 192.168.2.1 broadcast 192.168.2.255 netmask
> 255.255.255.0
> 
> This give me a subnet 192.168.2.?? for virtual machines, My router is
> 192.168.0.1 and my host machine is on 192.168.0.3. here is the host
> routing table after executing the above script (man route)
> 
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 tap0
> localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
> 
> To install armedslack on qemu I do this:
> make a directory for your VM, and in that directory make some subdirs,
> HardDrive, CDROM, Images.
> create a raw disk image in HardDrive using dd.
> copy needed initrd's to images and create an iso of the armedslack
> distro with mkisofs (no need to be bootable).
> then run an install script like this one:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # install armed slack
> qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -m 256 -kernel Images/zImage-versatile
> -hda HardDrive/harddisk.img -cdrom CDROM/armedslack.iso -initrd
> Images/initrd-versatile.img -append "root=/dev/ram rw"
> 
> Now sit back and install, the installer will find the cdrom and
> install the packages from it.
> to run the installed VM use a script like this one.( adjusting per
> your needs :))
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # Start armed slack
> qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -m 256 -net vde,vlan=0 -net
> nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52:54:41:53:13:37 -kernel Images/zImage-versatile
> -hda HardDrive/harddisk.img -cdrom CDROM/armedslack.iso -localtime
> -usb -no-reboot -initrd Images/initrd-versatile.gz -append
> "root=/dev/sda2 rootfs=ext4"
> 
> After configuring the network with netconf ( I like static ips for my
> VM's ) the VM's routing table looks like this:
> 
> ___________________________________
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
> 
> Good luck getting it to work on a slackberry pi, I have done just
> that. you will need to compile a stock Raspberry pi kernel, (good luck
> on back porting 2.6.37 to broadcom chip, would be cool though, let me
> know if you do.)
> get your .config from a running kernel, arch is good.
> copy your /root from qemu to your sd card (boot needs to be empty)
> linux partion and your uncompresseed kernel to the boot vfat partion
> as kernel.img, don't forget to copy the kernel modules to /lib/module,
> edit your fstab and cmdline.txt, phew! reboot and voila!
> 
> Minor niggles: ntpd wont set the clock, however ntpdate will, you go
> figure? rootfs always loads as rw, perhaps a quirk of the pi boot
> loader?
> if you need alpha audio modprobe snd-bbcm2835
> X will require building xf86-video-fbdev, and you will need to get an
> xorg.conf from a running pi.
> 
> all the best.
> Stanley
> 
> 
> I hope that helps
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