On Wednesday, November 10, 2021, <mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl> wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Very interesting, I was thinking about the same, for testing arm64
versions. I have some experience with qemu, although I mostly use
VirtualBox.
It is quite possible to use UEFI boot with qemu.
I presume the emulated arm64 machine is good enough for compilations,
for actually testing CinGG you probably need more??
more memory, (-m 2047) more -smp :)
there is link for opensuse install, you can use pre-installed os image
or debian arm64 image (also pre-installed, so no need for multihour long install)
you can prepare specific source image with pre-downloaded/unpacked/patched source and add this as second hdd...
A problem might be missing build utilities, I know a programmer who
(for fun) wanted to build a CinGG for macOS had problems there.
MatN
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:07:13 +0300
Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin <cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:
> because my patch series tend to fail on x86 while working on arm, I
> hope those links will help in creating virtual arm debian install for
> testing
>
> official qemu wiki
>
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM
>
> link from this wiki to older (2017) guide, you probably want to change
> debian distro name in d/l links
>
> https://translatedcode.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/installing-debian-on-qemus-64-bit-arm-virt-board/
>
> also, for faster performance try
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/tcg-multithread
> (do not forgot -smp 4 (or 8) argument)