: How to install and use KVM within AGL on a mixed-critical Renesas R-Car M3/H3 If not, we can install them using the distribution's package management tools, e.g.
The official instructions claim support for gcc 4.1.2 or gcc 4.4.4, however in our experience more recent versions offered by modern distributions usually tend to work better.Īt this point we need to make sure the system has installed all the standard development tools. Unpack the software and read the installation instructions in Installation_Guide.txt. When downloading the software one can also receive a license file for a 45 day evaluation. The latest version of the platform at the time of this writing is 8.3.
A registration with ARM is necessary to be able to proceed with the download of the software. Click the Download now button and proceed to find the Fast Models Evaluation Linux. An evaluation version is available from ARM's web site. Since hardware access to a newer ARM platform cannot be assumed for everyone, we can use the Fast Models simulator instead.
These can be found on the ARM Infocenter. Other related documentation includes the Virtualization Extensions documentation as well as the Large Physical Address Extensions (LPAE).
The final system, running with a guest under our host Linux system, can be illustrated as follows:įor more information on the hardware architecture see the ARM Architecture Reference Manual for v7-a processors. Using the already prepared host kernel and filesystem, we will start a guest OS under KVM/ARM.** We will enable KVM support in the host Linux kernel, and built QEMU with KVM/ARM support in order to boot a guest system.īoot a guest VM. We will compile an ARM Linux kernel which we can boot on our simulation platform we will use a basic file system image to boot a working system.īuild KVM and QEMU on our setup. We will use the ARM Fast Models platform to generate a Cortex-A15 environment. Installation and setup of the simulation platform. This document will guide the reader through a number of steps in order to setup the development environment for KVM development on Cortex-A15: After following this guide the user will be able to boot a Cortex-A15 simulation platform, with a working KVM virtualization setup able to boot a Linux guest. The instructions provided assume an installation of a recent version of Ubuntu (13.10 at the time of this writing), but could be adjusted for other modern distributions. A working recent Linux system is assumed to be used by the user for development. This document describes how to set up a development environment for KVM/ARM on Cortex-A15. Linux KVM has been designed to be portable, and has proven itself in a number of architectures, like Intel VT-x, AMD SVM, PowerPC and IA64, and is now implemented for the ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 platforms. The Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (Linux KVM) is one of the most successful and powerful Virtualization solutions available, enabling the Linux kernel to boot guest Operating Systems under a process. Virtualization has only started to show its capabilities on mobile and embedded platforms, however likewise to the desktop and server world, a very wide range of new use cases can be supported. At the same time, virtualization has also been proven as a powerful tool for end users, system administrators, security researchers, and system developers. In the last decade virtualization has been established as a very powerful tool, expanding the capabilities of servers and enabling disruptive technologies like cloud computing.