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NixOS on ARM through QEMU is possible, by using qemu-system-arm on QEMU's 'virt' machine, and the u-boot image for qemu. | NixOS on ARM through QEMU is possible, by using qemu-system-arm on QEMU's 'virt' machine, and the u-boot image for qemu. | ||
{{note| | {{note| [https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2017-October/308693.html u-boot currently requires highmem=off for PCI to work], so you won't be able to use more than 2GB of RAM.}} | ||
== Board-specific installation notes == | == Board-specific installation notes == | ||
=== Required images === | === Required images === | ||
First get some recent sd-image-armv7l-linux.img and | First get some recent <tt>sd-image-armv7l-linux.img</tt> and <tt>uboot-qemu_arm_defconfig-*_u-boot.bin</tt> as described [[NixOS_on_ARM|the main NixOS on ARM page]]. | ||
=== Creating qcow image === | === Creating qcow image === | ||
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qemu-system-arm -machine virt,highmem=off -bios uboot-qemu_arm_defconfig-2018.03_u-boot.bin -drive if=none,file=sd-image-armv7l-linux.qcow2,id=mydisk -device ich9-ahci,id=ahci -device ide-drive,drive=mydisk,bus=ahci.0 -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 -nographic -smp | qemu-system-arm -machine virt,highmem=off -bios uboot-qemu_arm_defconfig-2018.03_u-boot.bin -drive if=none,file=sd-image-armv7l-linux.qcow2,id=mydisk -device ich9-ahci,id=ahci -device ide-drive,drive=mydisk,bus=ahci.0 -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 -nographic -smp 2 -m 10G | ||
U-Boot 2018.03 (Mar 13 2018 - 12:02:19 +0000) | U-Boot 2018.03 (Mar 13 2018 - 12:02:19 +0000) | ||