• I installed binary qemu package instead of building from source
• Those ARM kernels are now 2.6.18-6, guess version will be changed again later on
• I didn’t install SSH – I’m using console for all the time (check below)

Pretty fun, and on my P4 2.8G Ubuntu it runs pretty smoothly- I guess it runs much more faster than most real ARM single board computers, but I don’t have anything to verify it.

Turning on console took me sometime, as I was lost on host and VM’s setting, actually it is pretty simple:

• turn on ttyAMA0 in VM, I replaced tty2 with ttyAMA0 in /etc/inittab:
  2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ttyAMA0
• launch the VM without graphic (too much resource), and let VM use ttyAMA0 as console:
  qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-versatile -initrd initrd.img-2.6.18-6-versatile -hda hda.img -append “console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/sda1″ -serial stdio -nographic

Now after reboot, I have my ARM box now:

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

It does not have full Ubuntu packages, I’m trying to do cross compiling (using GNAT) as I want to use Ada for all its development.

Once everything works I will get a dev board