[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, 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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for userspace emulation (faster) you can try this wiki page instructions

https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi/qemu-user-static

and for faster install on qemu-system you can look into this (dvd media
instead of netboot)
https://blog.lazym.io/2021/04/16/Run-ARM-MIPS-Debian-on-QEMU/

have good night/rest!




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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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>> >
>>> > 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-d
>>> ebian-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)
>>>
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