Currently, not every feature of the cloud-hypervisor is enabled on AArch64, which means that on AArch64 machines, the `run_unit_tests.sh` needs to be tailored and some unit test cases should be run on x86_64 only. Also this commit fixes the typo and unifies `Arm64` and `AArch64` in the AArch64 document. Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
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How to build and run Cloud-hypervisor on AArch64
Cloud-hypervisor is partially enabled on AArch64 architecture. Although all features are not ready yet, you can begin to test Cloud-hypervisor on a AArch64 host by following this guide.
Prerequisites
On AArch64 machines, Cloud-hypervisor depends on an external library libfdt-dev
for generating Flattened Device Tree (FDT).
The long-term plan is to replace libfdt-dev
with some pure-Rust component to get rid of such dependency.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libfdt-dev
Build
Before building, a hack trick need to be performed to get rid of some build error in vmm component. See this for more info about this temporary workaround.
sed -i 's/"with-serde",\ //g' vmm/Cargo.toml
The support of AArch64 is in very early stage, only Virtio devices with MMIO tranport is available.
cargo build --no-default-features --features "mmio"
Image
Download kernel binary and rootfs image from AWS.
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/spec.ccfc.min/img/aarch64/ubuntu_with_ssh/fsfiles/xenial.rootfs.ext4 -O rootfs.img
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/spec.ccfc.min/img/aarch64/ubuntu_with_ssh/kernel/vmlinux.bin -O kernel.bin
Containerized build
If you want to build and test Cloud Hypervisor without having to install all the required dependencies, you can also turn to the development script: dev_cli.sh.
To build the development container:
./scripts/dev_cli.sh build-container
To build Cloud-hypervisor in the container:
./scripts/dev_cli.sh build
Run
Assuming you have built Cloud-hypervisor with the development container, a VM can be started with command:
sudo target/debug/cloud-hypervisor --kernel kernel.bin --disk path=rootfs.ext4 --cmdline "keep_bootcon console=hvc0 reboot=k panic=1 pci=off root=/dev/vda rw" --cpus boot=4 --memory size=512M --seccomp false --serial file=serial.log --log-file log.log -vvv
If the build was done out of the container, replace the binary path with build/cargo_target/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/debug/cloud-hypervisor
.