[Cin] arm emulation on qemu links

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

On Wednesday, November 10, 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu <
randrianasulu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, November 10, 2021, <mnieuw at zap.a2000.nl> wrote:
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>> 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??
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as for runtime it works via vnc (!) on 4 (2ghz max) + 4(1.5 ghz max) arm
core and 2 gb ram (+zswap around 1.4 gb shared with android 10) . sometimes
it works fast enough (realtime) with even fullhd h264 video, sometimes not
- probably due to cpu freqency/sheduling enforced by kernel)

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> more memory, (-m 2047) more -smp :)
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> there is link for opensuse install, you can use pre-installed os image
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> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:AArch64#Using_an_emulator
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> or debian arm64 image (also pre-installed, so no need for multihour long
> install)
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> https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Qemu
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-10/
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> you can prepare specific source image with pre-downloaded/unpacked/patched
> source and add this as second hdd...
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>> A problem might be missing build utilities, I know a programmer who
>> (for fun) wanted to build a CinGG for macOS had problems there.
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>> MatN
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>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:07:13 +0300
>> Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin <cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:
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>> > 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
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>> > official qemu wiki
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>> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM
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>> > link from this wiki to older (2017) guide, you probably want to change
>> > debian distro name in d/l links
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>> > https://translatedcode.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/installing-
>> debian-on-qemus-64-bit-arm-virt-board/
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>> > also, for faster performance try
>> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/tcg-multithread
>> > (do not forgot -smp 4 (or 8) argument)
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