Mandatory edk2-armvirt dependency for qemu-system-aarch64

adam900710 · 19 August 2022 06:26

Hi,

There are two bugs related to qemu-base on Manjaro ARM version (Aarch64):

Qemu-base now default to qemu-system-x86
Which will be super slow for aarch64
Qemu-system-aarch64 has mandatory dependency on edk2-armvirt
That package is the UEFI runtime for Aarch64, and the official Archlinux x86_64 package can be used directly.

Thanks.

bogdancovaciu · 19 August 2022 06:44

Hello,

Both are packaged by Arch Linux
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qemu-base/
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qemu-system-aarch64/

and inherited by Manjaro as they are … hence available in our repository.
3 days ago the quemu got split package
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qemu/

adam900710 · 19 August 2022 07:05

I’m talking about AArch64 version, thus I guess in that case your upstream source should be ArchlinuxARM, not Archlinux (x86_64).

In that case, I have also reported the problem to ArchlinuxARM.

sora · 8 December 2022 01:54

This issue has not been fixed yet:

adam900710 · 8 December 2022 03:25

Try this PR:

github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs

extra/qemu: to make qemu installable for aarch64

archlinuxarm:master ← adam900710:qemu_split

opened 07:15AM - 24 Nov 22 UTC

adam900710

+328 -100

Currently qemu package group has its problems, making it almost impossible to ru…n libvirt with qemu: - qemu-user-static build will fail using native tool chain This will prevent the whole package, including qemu-system-* which can compile without any problem. - qemu-base and qemu-desktop depends on qemu-system-x86 Which makes completely no sense. This is something from the Archlinux PKGBUILD. - No way to install qemu-system-aarch64 As it has hard dependency on edk2-armvirt, which is not buildable yet natively on aarch64 (missing arm toolchain AFAIK). This update will solve the problems by: - Split qemu-user-static into its own PKGBUILD Qemu-user-statis has a completely different use-case compared to system emulators. The most common usage is allowing the host to chroot into rootfs for another arch. Thus it is not suitable to contain qemu-user-static into qemu package. There is already a feature request to upstream Archlinux: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/76556 - Make qemu-base and qemu-desktop to change its default system emulator dependecy Now the PKGBUILD will choose the default system emulator depending on the target arch. - Make edk2-armvirt as optional dependency In fact we can directly install the same package from upstream Archlinux, as that package is just the edk2 uefi firmware, which is arch independent. Have tested qemu PKGBUILD natively on both x86_64 and aarch64, and resulted qemu can work with libvirt using KVM. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>