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[Tman]

Qemu-arm version 1.0.1 is an Arm Emulator compiled in Slacko 5.3.3 Final.

You can use it to compile apps for the Arm-based computers like the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.smokey01.com/Tman/apps/slacko_apps/

Thanks to Antiloquax, who help me get it running. The pic below is qemu running an image of his "Puppi", a virtual Arch-arm based distro.

The thread for it is -> Puppy Projects -> Raspberry Puppi

EDIT:
Qemu-linaro is now also availiable. It is a fork of Qemu, more specialized for Arm emulation.

[antiloquax]

Nice work Tman.

By the way, if anyone wants to have a play with this qemu image, there is a copy on my ftp site:
ftp PupPi files

account name: a3804781
password: puppi1

[antiloquax]

You might find that your qemu pi works better with its own swap partition. I made a swap partition on the usb drive where I keep my qemu images and then added this to the qemu launch command

[Tman]

QEMU SWAP FILE

making a 768MB swap image: qemu-img create swap.img 768M

formatting the swap image: mkswap -c swap.img -L swap_image

adding the swap to your qemu startup options (example using Antiloquax's puppi image) :
qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -kernel zImage -append "root=/dev/sda" -hda puppi.img -hdb swap.img -serial stdio -redir tcp:2222::22

after launching qemu, enable the swap with this command: swapon /dev/sdb

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QEMU WITHOUT GRAPHICS

If you are compiling, you may not need a graphical window. You can run qemu in text-only mode to save on system resources.

Example of a script to run Puppi without graphics:

#!/bin/sh
# this assumes that the .img files and the zImage (kernel image) are located in /mnt/home/puppi
cd /mnt/home/puppi
exec urxvt -e qemu-system-arm -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -M versatilepb -kernel zImage -append "root=/dev/sda" -hda puppi.img -hdb swap.img -clock dynticks -nographic

[antiloquax]

Thanks Tman - I'd been using a "real" swap partition. I will have a go using a .img file instead. I think that's probably a better way to do it.
mark

[Tman]

Hi Mark,

Yes, the swap image would have faster access times if you place it in your hard-drive over your usb drive.

QEMU seems to support a maximum or 256MB of RAM, for the versatilepb motherboard option.
I was thinking that with computers that have a lot of RAM, the swap partition could be created in the /tmp folder in Puppy Linux. Since that folder runs in RAM, the swap image would be virtual RAM running in real RAM.

[antiloquax]