[fedora-virt] qemu user emulation test package, and is GUEST_BASE broken?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed Apr 8 12:50:34 UTC 2009
moving on, i'm continuing to document QEMU on f11 here:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/QEMU_on_Fedora_11
and i have (unsurprisingly) a couple of questions.
when i first started playing with QEMU a while back, i found the
user emulation test tarball here:
http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/linux-user-test-0.3.tar.gz
really handy to see what worked and what didn't. is there any chance
of bundling up something like that and turning it into another fedora
QEMU package? maybe "qemu-user-tests" or something like that, if
there are no licensing restrictions? i think a number of beginners
would find that useful. (the test script in that tarball,
"qemu-linux-user.sh", could be simplified tremendously, of course.)
and, more technically, the following attempt to test user emulation
for ARM (and ARMEB) using that test tarball fails thusly (running as a
non-root user):
$ qemu-arm -L gnemul/qemu-arm arm/ls
mmap: Permission denied.
$
apparently, this is because ARM tries to mmap to *very* low memory,
and the /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr file is, by default, set to 65536.
the alleged solution is explained here:
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=qemu-devel&a=2008-04&t=7231855
to set the environment variable GUEST_BASE to 65536. now, that might
have worked once upon a time, but it doesn't seem to work now. on the
other hand, if you have root access, you can just:
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
and things suddenly work just fine. should GUEST_BASE work? or is
one reduced to needing root access to change that setting on a global
basis? and once i know the answer, i'll add it to my wiki page. cuz
that's just the kind of guy i am. :-)
rday
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