qemu-snappy-experiments

Experiments for running an ARM version of ubuntu (snappy) on qemu and have snapcraft available

Snapcraft 2.x from Ubuntu ARM (Xenial only)

no luck yet..

lxc-container for xenial armhf?

sudo apt-get install lxc qemu-user-static -yq
sudo lxc-create -n armhfxenial -t ubuntu -- -a armhf -r xenial
sudo lxc-start -n armhfxenial
sudo lxc-console -n armhfxenial

armhf cloud image won't boot

wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-armhf-disk1.img

####Run qemu

qemu-system-arm \
-kernel arm-vmlinux -append "root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw console=tty0" -m 1G -cpu cortex-a9 \
-M vexpress-a9 \
-sd 2015-04-06-ubuntu-trusty.img \
-net nic,model=lan9118,netdev=n0 -netdev user,id=n0 \
-redir tcp:5022::22

Snapcraft 1.x from Ubuntu ARM

Use Ubuntu for ARM (14.04 currently) and install snapcraft.

More info at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi

wget http://www.finnie.org/software/raspberrypi/2015-04-06-ubuntu-trusty.zip
unzip 2015-04-06-ubuntu-trusty.zip

####Run qemu

qemu-system-arm \
-kernel vmlinux-3.18-arm -append "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw console=tty0" -m 1G -cpu cortex-a9 \
-M vexpress-a9 \
-sd 2015-04-06-ubuntu-trusty.img \
-net nic,model=lan9118,netdev=n0 -netdev user,id=n0 \
-redir tcp:5022::22

Login with ubuntu / ubuntu

Install ssh or ssh-fs eg ssh ubuntu@localhost -p 5022

sudo apt-get install openssh-server -y

####Install snapcraft

# see https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/build-apps/get-started/
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:snappy-dev/tools
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install snapcraft -y