test: support running qemu on other architectures #2487
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Allow specifying the architecture for `run-qemu`. E.g. this enables running armhf containers on arm64 hosts. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>
On the Ubuntu ppc64el architecture the kernel is named `/boot/vmlinux`. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>
The QEMU machine `q35` is only available on x86: ``` qemu-system-aarch64: unsupported machine type Use -machine help to list supported machines ``` Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>
Set QEMU machine for ARM and PowerPC to run on Debian/Ubuntu. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>
KVM fails on the Ubuntu ppc64el autopkgtest runners: ``` $ /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64el -enable-kvm -cpu host [...] ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) failed: 22 Invalid argument PPC KVM module is not loaded. Try modprobe kvm_hv. qemu-system-ppc64el: failed to initialize kvm: Invalid argument $ modprobe kvm_hv modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_hv': No such device ``` Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>
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This merge request contains the first set of patches to support running qemu on other architectures.
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