Emulateurs: Debian Mipsel via GXemul
If you're not coming from there, please check first my main emulation page, and in particular its DISCLAIMER section.
This page describes the emulation of a Debian Mips (little endian) system using the GXemul emulator.I'm using GXemul 0.4.2:
apt-get install gxemul
You can fetch my ready-to-run Debian Mipsel image:
debian-mipsel-gxemul-0.4.tar | size:71MB |
debian-mipsel-gxemul-0.4.md5 | |
debian-mipsel-gxemul-0.4.md5.asc | PGP sign of MD5 |
Then do typically:
md5sum -c debian-mipsel-gxemul-0.4.md5 gpg --recv 9E4A9C9D --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net gpg --verify debian-mipsel-gxemul-0.4.md5.asc debian-mipsel-gxemul-0.4.md5 tar -xf debian-mipsel-gxemul-0.4.tar cd debian-mipsel-gxemul-0.4 cat README ./extract ##you need qemu-img to be installed (see qemu distr) ./runAnd enjoy !
Well, do as I've done, follow the instructions of this very nice page.
Here are two direct links to the needed stuff:
After the debian installation, I advise to install the openssh package and configure the server part. This way you will be able to reach (indirectly, see limitations below) your virtual machine from the real one, with is _really_ convenient: no more keyboard/mouse issues.
Currently, GXemul emulates the network in a way that may be nice for the average user, but is in fact quite annoying: it does NAT translation itself, so the emulated machine can reach the internet, but it's not possible to contact directly the emulated machine from the real one. For contacting it nonetheless via ssh, and be able to open several consoles, we need to play with port forwarding:
ssh somebody@somewhere -q -N -R 2222:localhost:22
ssh -p 2222 -o HostKeyAlias=debianmips guest@localhostThe HostKeyAlias prevents a conflict between the true key of localhost and the one this session will use (the one of debianmips).
The emulator takes 100% CPU even when the emulated machine is idle!
I haven't tried to install and run Xorg in the emulated machine. A console is enough for my needs (playing with gcc).