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Running Ubuntu 16.04.1 armhf on Qemu

This is a writeup about how to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 Xenial Xerus for the 32-bit hard-float ARMv7 (armhf) architecture on a Qemu VM via Ubuntu netboot.

The setup will create a Ubuntu VM with LPAE extensions (generic-lpae) enabled. However, this writeup should also work for non-LPAE (generic) kernels.

The performance of the resulting VM is quite good, and it allows VMs with >1G ram (compared to 256M on versatilepb and 1G on versatile-a9/versatile-a15). It also supports virtio disks whereas versatile-a9/versatile-a15 only support SD cards via the -sd argument.

	HTTPPort 8090
	HTTPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
	MaxHTTPConnections 200
	MaxClients 100
	MaxBandWidth 500000
	CustomLog -

	<Feed camera.ffm>
	File /tmp/camera.ffm
	FileMaxSize 200M

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Read-only Root-FS for Raspian
	#
	# Modified 2016 by Stefan Bonfert to make it compatible with Raspbian
	# Jessie (vanilla).
	#
	# Modified 2015 by Pascal Rosin to work on raspian-ua-netinst with
	# overlayfs integrated in Linux Kernel >= 3.18.
	#

	# Install QEMU OSX port with ARM support
	sudo port install qemu +target_arm
	export QEMU=$(which qemu-system-arm)

	# Dowload kernel and export location
	curl -OL \
	https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/blob/master/kernel-qemu-4.1.7-jessie
	export RPI_KERNEL=./kernel-qemu-4.1.7-jessie

	# Download filesystem and export location

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Running Ubuntu 16.04.1 armhf on Qemu

Get netboot files