virt-manager vs. aarch64 *with graphics*?

Gabriel L. Somlo gsomlo at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 08:06:13 MDT 2022


Hi,

Does anyone have experience or a link on how to set up a graphical
aarch64 VM in virt-manager (emulated on x86_64)?

I've tried "New VM" -> "Architecture: aarch64",
(either the default machine type of "virt", or "raspi3").

Eventually, I picked "customize configuration before install",
and noticed that none of the machine types come with a configured
display! There's a "Console1" (which I don't want to use), and
no kebboard/mouse/video hardware.

I've tried adding "Graphics" (spice server), "Video" ("ramfb"),
and some combo of mouse/tablet/keyboard.

None of the Video options (besides "ramfb") seem to "light up" when I
power on the VM.

With "ramfb", I do see the tianocore/uefi boot screen, but once I
choose to start the F-36 workstation live image, the screen stops
refreshing altogether, and graphics mode never kicks in.

Googling around yields nothing, and I got crickets on #fedora as
well... :)

Thanks for any clue anyone may be able to impart!

Cheers,
--Gabriel


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