Additionally, you must use a 15.10 (wily) or newer cloud image for guests. Note: For GICv3 systems, such as Cavium ThunderX, you must use QEMU from Ubuntu 16.04 or newer, and pass '-M virt,gic-version=3'. For accelerated VMs (arm64 host w/ KVM support) $ sudo qemu-system-aarch64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -cpu host -M virt -nographic -pflash flash0.img -pflash flash1.img -drive if=none,file=vivid-server-cloudimg-arm64-uefi1.img,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 -netdev type=tap,id=net0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0,mac=$randmac.Now you should be able to boot/ into a -arm64-uefi1.img type cloud image. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=flash1.img bs=1M count=64

$ dd if=/usr/share/qemu-efi/QEMU_EFI.fd of=flash0.img conv=notrunc $ dd if=/dev/zero of=flash0.img bs=1M count=64 Two volumes are required, one static one for the UEFI firmware, and another dynamic one to store variables. Now you'll need to create pflash volumes for UEFI.Install QEMU and the EFI image for QEMU: $ sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm qemu-efi.Note: this requires Ubuntu 15.04 or greater Getting the bits It is possible to boot directly into Linux instead. I've chosen to describe a UEFI-based system here so I can make use of the kernel on the guest's disk image. on an x86 host) or, accelerated w/ KVM if you have an arm64 host. You can either do this fully emulated (e.g.

Ubuntu/arm64 can run inside the QEMU emulator.

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