Experimental features

riscv64

The support for riscv64 is very experimental and requires special preparations. Basically you need to prepare your system according to:

Which means you need to install latest qemu-system-riscv (tested with qemu 00928a421d47f49691cace1207481b7aad31b1f1) or install the one provided by Rich:

And you need to download a suitable image and bootable kernel to the right location:

Basically you can go into $AVOCADO_VT_DATA/images and execute:

curl https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/disk-images/bbl -o f28-riscv64-kernel
curl https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/disk-images/stage4-disk.img.xz | xz -d > stage4-disk.img
qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 stage4-disk.img f28-riscv64.qcow2
rm stage4-disk.img

Also I’d recommend booting the guest:

qemu-system-riscv64 \
    -nographic \
    -machine virt \
    -smp 4 \
    -m 2G \
    -kernel f28-riscv64-kernel \
    -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 \
    -device virtio-rng-device,rng=rng0 \
    -append "console=ttyS0 ro root=/dev/vda" \
    -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
    -drive file=f28-riscv64.qcow2,format=qcow2,id=hd0 \
    -device virtio-net-device,netdev=usernet \
    -netdev user,id=usernet,hostfwd=tcp::10000-:22

and running the Fedora-25.ks post-install steps:

dnf -y install @standard @c-development @development-tools python net-tools sg3_utils python-pip
grubby --remove-args="rhgb quiet" --update-kernel=$(grubby --default-kernel)
dhclient
chkconfig sshd on
iptables -F
systemctl mask tmp.mount
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
sed -i "/^HWADDR/d" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# if package groups were missing from main installation repo
# try again from installed system
dnf -y groupinstall c-development development-tools
# include avocado: allows using this machine with remote runner
# Fallback to pip as it's not yet built for riscv64
dnf -y install python2-avocado || pip install python2-avocado

Tip

If you want to use riscv without kvm (eg. on x86 host) use something like avocado run --vt-machine-type riscv64-mmio --vt-arch riscv64 --vt-extra-params enable_kvm=no --vt-guest-os Fedora.28 -- boot which sets the right machine/arch and disables kvm (uses tcg).