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Running Ubuntu 16.04.1 armhf on Qemu

This is a writeup about how to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 Xenial Xerus for the 32-bit hard-float ARMv7 (armhf) architecture on a Qemu VM via Ubuntu netboot.

The setup will create a Ubuntu VM with LPAE extensions (generic-lpae) enabled. However, this writeup should also work for non-LPAE (generic) kernels.

The performance of the resulting VM is quite good, and it allows VMs with >1G ram (compared to 256M on versatilepb and 1G on versatile-a9/versatile-a15). It also supports virtio disks whereas versatile-a9/versatile-a15 only support SD cards via the -sd argument.

Get netboot files

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  |-------------------------------|                       |----------------------------------|
  |              SYN              |                       |               TCU                |
  |-------------------------------|                       |----------------------------------|
  |                               |                       |                                  |
  | Wifi (en0): 192.168.1.100/24  |                       |                                  |
  |                               |_______________________|                                  |
  |  Ethernet (en1): 192.168.5.1  _________________________ Ethernet (eth0): 192.168.5.2     |
  |                               |                       |                                  |
  |                               |                       |                                  |

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Wrk tools Guide

The script using tool from Wrk

Preparation

1. Modify variable file (vars file):

# Number of connection
CONNUM=10