On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 03:06:46PM +0100, didier gaumet wrote: Hi, Didier (putting the other interested person in CC since not subscribed) > Le 14/11/2025 à 14:33, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to boot a Debian raspberry Pi image under qemu; specifically, > > it is [...] > I am definitely not familiar with the qemu syntax (I only use qemu through > wirt-manager and my usage is very basic) > > So perhaps am I totally wrong here but I wonder if the -kernel option does > not imply that the guest and the host must share the same architecture, so > you could not launch an ARM guest from an AMD64 host, if that is what you > are trying to achieve (perhaps am I wrong on this subject, too). > Or perhaps you can directly launch an ARM kernel by copying it in an > appropriate location on an AMD64 host, I do not know Oh, so you imply -kernel points to something *outside* of the image? That might explain the error message nicely! Thanks for the hint, I'll check as soon as I'm at it again. > From the Qemu doc: > https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/linuxboot.html > > And from the qemu-system manpage: > [...]> Boot Image or Kernel specific > > There are broadly 4 ways you can boot a system with QEMU. > > > > • specify a firmware and let it control finding a kernel > > > > • specify a firmware and pass a hint to the kernel to boot > > > > • direct kernel image boot > > > > • manually load files into the guest's address space > [...] I see how one could read this that way, yes. Thanks again :-) Cheers -- tomás
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