This is intended to be used with LEDE project to provide image for use with QEMU arm-softmmu virt machine. Run with qemu-system-arm # boot with initramfs embedded in qemu-system-arm -nographic -M virt -m 64 -kernel lede-armvirt-zImage-initramfs # boot with accel=kvm qemu-system-arm -nographic -M virt,accel=kvm -cpu host -m 64 -kernel lede-armvirt-zImage-initramfs # boot with a separate rootfs qemu-system-arm -nographic -M virt -m 64 -kernel lede-armvirt-zImage \ -drive file=lede-armvirt-root.ext4,format=raw,if=virtio -append 'root=/dev/vda rootwait' # boot with local dir as rootfs qemu-system-arm -nographic -M virt -m 64 -kernel lede-armvirt-zImage \ -fsdev local,id=rootdev,path=root-armvirt/,security_model=none \ -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=rootdev,mount_tag=/dev/root \ -append 'rootflags=trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,cache=loose rootfstype=9p' Run with kvmtool # start a named machine lkvm run -k lede-armvirt-zImage -i lede-armvirt-rootfs.cpio --name armvirt0 # start with virtio-9p rootfs lkvm run -k lede-armvirt-zImage -d root-armvirt/ # stop "armvirt0" lkvm stop --name armvirt0 # stop all lkvm stop --all