I've followed the blog post and create an aarch64 vm with alpine 3.14 (virt) (with minor changes as the post is for linux and i'm on mac):
qemu-img create -f raw asvm-arm64-hd.img 2G
qemu-system-aarch64 -nographic -machine virt -m 512M -cpu cortex-a57 -smp 4 -drive file=asvm-arm64-hd.img,if=none,id=drive0,cache=writeback,format=raw -device virtio-blk,drive=drive0,bootindex=0 -drive file=~/Downloads/alpine-virt-3.14.2-aarch64.iso,if=none,id=drive1,cache=writeback,format=raw -device virtio-blk,drive=drive1,bootindex=1 -drive file=flash0.img,format=raw,if=pflash -drive file=flash1.img,format=raw,if=pflash -device vmxnet3,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22
(reboot)
qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 asvm-arm64-hd.img asvm-arm64-hd.qcow2
qemu-system-aarch64 -nographic -machine virt -m 512M -cpu cortex-a57 -smp 4 -drive file=asvm-arm64-hd.qcow2,if=none,id=drive0,cache=writeback,format=qcow2 -device virtio-blk,drive=drive0,bootindex=0 -drive file=flash0.img,format=raw,if=pflash -drive file=flash1.img,format=raw,if=pflash -device vmxnet3,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22,hostfwd=tcp::50051-:50051 -monitor tcp::5555,telnet,server,nowait
It works as expected on my dev machine (mac).
However when installed in android-vshell i'm getting "combined size of system firmware exceeds 8388608 bytes" error message.
Here is the android cmd (used in runtime):
processArgs = Arrays.asList(
"vShell",
"-L", runtimeDataPath,
"-m", "512", // 512Mb RAM
"-accel", "tcg,tb-size=64",
"-nographic",
"-parallel", "none",
"-chardev", "stdio,id=serial0,mux=off,signal=off",
"-serial", "chardev:serial0",
"-boot", "c,menu=on",
"-nodefaults",
"-cpu", "max",
// network
"-nic", "user",
"-netdev", "user,id=vmnic0,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22",
"-device", "virtio-net-pci,netdev=vmnic0,id=virtio-net-pci0",
// disk
// shared dirs:
// ...
"-monitor", "tcp::" + monitorPort + ",telnet,server,nowait"
, "-drive", "file=" + runtimeDataPath + "/disk-0.qcow2,if=none,id=drive0,cache=writeback,format=qcow2"
, "-device", "virtio-blk,drive=drive0,bootindex=0"
, "-drive", "file=" + runtimeDataPath + "/flash0.img,format=raw,if=pflash"
, "-drive", "file=" + runtimeDataPath + "/flash1.img,format=raw,if=pflash"
);
Obviously the asvm-arm64-hd.qcow2 is renamed to disk-0.qcow2, the paths are ok.
flash0.img and flash1.img are indeed larger than 8Mb (they are exactly 64Mb).
Is it android-vshell (qemu) issue or smth wrong with my vm?
I can see some patches applied in android-vshell, is anything missing (that could help to fix the issue)?
PS. I was able to run "x86-64" vm with android-vshell, so i guess it's working in general, but smth is wrong in "aarch64" case.
PPS. It seems that somehow qemu thinks it's not aarch64 vm but probably i386 (with smaller max_fw_size)
