How to enable Guest Linux VM on Raspberry PI3?

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Fri Jun 07, 2019 at 18:27:18 +0000, Lei Zhou wrote:
> After I brought up L4Re and Fiasco on Raspberry PI3,  would like to enable guest Linux VM on top of it.
> 
> I'm looking at the link https://github.com/kernkonzept/manifest/wiki/LinuxVM and hoping I can do the same thing on Raspberry PI3.   
> 
> The link seems using hardware-assisted virtualization option uvmm based for guest VM.     There seems also L4Linux Paravirtualization option.    Which option should I use for me to enable guest LInux  VM on Raspberry PI3?

You can only use L4Linux as the Raspberries do not support
hardware-assisted virtualization (because they have the wrong interrupt
controller).


Adam

> In addition,  when I followed the link to try on QEMU first,   encounter some "vbus" capability issue.   I followed the guidance exactly as the link says.   However,   when I started the command to spawning the Linux VM as:
>          $make E=uvmm-basic qemu
> 
> It failed with following log:
> 
> ============================================
> MOE: virtual user address space [0-7fffffffff]
> MOE: rom name space cap -> [C:103000]
> MOE: rwfs name space cap -> [C:105000]
>   BOOTFS: [41100000-411974b8] [C:107000] uvmm
>   BOOTFS: [41198000-411c4e58] [C:109000] l4re
>   BOOTFS: [411c5000-41246770] [C:10b000] ned
>   BOOTFS: [41247000-412475c4] [C:10d000] virt-arm_virt.dtb
>   BOOTFS: [41248000-41430200] [C:10f000] ramdisk-armv8.cpio.gz
>   BOOTFS: [41431000-41431242] [C:111000] uvmm-basic.ned
>   BOOTFS: [41432000-42618a00] [C:113000] Image.gz
> MOE: cmdline: moe rom/uvmm-basic.ned
> MOE: Starting: rom/ned rom/uvmm-basic.ned
> MOE: loading 'rom/ned'
> Ned says: Hi World!
> Ned: loading file: 'rom/uvmm-basic.ned'
> VMM[vmbus]: 'vbus' capability not found. Hardware access not possible for VM.
> VMM[main]: Hello out there.
> VMM: FATAL: ERROR: ARM GIC virtualization does not work without passing the virtual GICC via the vbus
> VMM[vm]: Device creation for virtual device virtio_uart at 20000 failed. Disabling device.
> VMM[]: virtio_net at 10000.l4vmm,virtiocap: capability net is invalid.
> VMM[vm]: Device creation for virtual device virtio_net at 10000 failed. Disabling device.
> VMM: FATAL: ERROR: ARM GIC virtualization does not work without passing the virtual GICC via the vbus
> VMM[vm]: Device creation for virtual device interrupt-controller failed. Disabling device.
> VMM: FATAL: Parsing timer interrupt: Argument out of range
> qemu-system-aarch64: terminating on signal 2
> Makefile:6: recipe for target 'do-all-make-goals' failed
> make: *** [do-all-make-goals] Interrupt
> =========================================================================
> 
> Any feedbacks are greatly appreciated!
> Lei Zhou
> 
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