ubuntu-arm64-qemu

small qemu container with ubuntu 18.04 server minimal rootfs quick installation script install.sh help you install the fs and setup qemu

Installation

Depends on packages

• lz4 & tar to extraction and decode images
• git to clone this code
• qemu-system-aarch64 to boot image
• wget to download files

apt install lz4 tar git qemu-system-aarch64 wget -y
git clone https://github.com/RandomCoderOrg/ubuntu-arm64-qemu
cd ubuntu-arm64-qemu
bash install.sh

Running/ Boot image

A script boot.sh is located in your ${HOME}/hippo-qemu so just run it with

bash ${HOME}/hippo-qemu/boot.sh

Login Password

User	Password
hippo	hippo

About images

for now the rootfs is ubuntu version 18.04 is gets updated ubuntu-image.img where ubuntu installed flash0.img & flash1.img are efi images where grub bootloader sits in and ubuntu-image.img is set to 20GB

manual way to extract image package

to decrease download size i made an archive of multiple stages

• images are packed in lxz compression
• hippo-arm64 (folder containing iamges) is compressed with tar this compressed ~1.7GB to 610mb

to exract manually

1. Download the compressed package

wget https://github.com/RandomCoderOrg/ubuntu-arm64-qemu/releases/download/test-v01/qemu-ubuntu-18-test.tgz

2. extract .tgz archive with tar with x and f attributes

tar -xf qemu-ubuntu-18-test.tgz

3. now change directory to hippo-qemu folder with cd hippo-qemu then you see 3 files with .lz extension to extract them you need to install lz4 package [ for debian user apt install lz4 -y ]
4. extracting them

lz4 -d ubutnu-image.img.lz ubuntu-image.img
lz4 -d flash0.img.lz flash0.img
lz4 -d flash1.img.lzl flash1.img

Thats it.

! Additional

Termux

for now there is no known way to me to crank the speed but using this in arm64 host gives better performence than X86_64 guest.

suggest me by creating an issue

KVM users

if you want to enable kvm add -enable-kvm and remove -accel tcg,thread=single at the in /home/hippo-qemu/boot.sh final script looks like this

#!/usr/bin/env bash
qemu-system-aarch64 \
-nographic \
-machine virt,gic-version=max \
-m 1500M \
-cpu max \
-smp 4 \
-netdev user,id=vnet,hostfwd=:127.0.0.1:0-:22 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vnet \
-drive file="${HOME}"/hippo-qemu/ubuntu-image.img,if=none,id=drive0,cache=writeback \
-device virtio-blk,drive=drive0,bootindex=0 \
-drive file="${HOME}"/hippo-qemu/flash0.img,format=raw,if=pflash \
-drive file="${HOME}"/hippo-qemu/flash1.img,format=raw,if=pflash \
-enable-kvm

WSL users

wsl users may error with tcg so remove last in in boot.sh file

final script looks like this

 #!/usr/bin/env bash
qemu-system-aarch64 \
-nographic \
-machine virt,gic-version=max \
-m 1500M \
-cpu max \
-smp 4 \
-netdev user,id=vnet,hostfwd=:127.0.0.1:0-:22 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vnet \
-drive file="${HOME}"/hippo-qemu/ubuntu-image.img,if=none,id=drive0,cache=writeback \
-device virtio-blk,drive=drive0,bootindex=0 \
-drive file="${HOME}"/hippo-qemu/flash0.img,format=raw,if=pflash \
-drive file="${HOME}"/hippo-qemu/flash1.img,format=raw,if=pflash