Announce: Alt-F under qemu emulation on your PC is now available

[João Cardoso]

Hi,

You don't need to flash your box with Alt-F to just test it. Instead, you can emulate it under 'qemu' on your desktop computer.

It might run slower (or faster) then Alt-F natively on a box, and no network services except its webUI will be available. Advanced qemu users might remove this restriction.

Read

It is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/Experimental, and you only need to download and execute 'qemu-Alt-F.sh'.

Enjoy,

João

# This emulates Alt-F under qemu on a Versatile PB arm board.

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# You have to install qemu-system-arm on your computer. It works for me on a linux machine.

# You only have to download 'qemu-Alt-F.sh' and execute it.

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# A folder named ~/qemu-Alt-F will be created for you and this script makes all needed downloads

# and starts the qemu emulation

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# All networking is firewalled except port 5555, which is forwarded to the guest port 80,

# so you can type http://localhost:5555 on your computer browser to have acess to the Alt-F webUI.

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# Serial console is enabled for root, no password, you can use CTRL+a c

# to switch between the qemu monitor ('quit' to exit qemu) and the Alt-F console

# http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#Keys

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# The following error is expected and is harmless, as there is no fan/temperature/buttons/etc

# sysctrl: Hardware board qemu not supported, exiting

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# A 10GB virtual disk is created and you can use it as a normal disk, being persistent across reboots

# "settings" can be saved and are also persistent across reboots

[Joao Cardoso]

On Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 7:06:27 PM UTC+1, João Cardoso wrote:

Hi,

You don't need to flash your box with Alt-F to just test it. Instead, you can emulate it under 'qemu' on your desktop computer.

It might run slower (or faster) then Alt-F natively on a box, and no network services except its webUI will be available. Advanced qemu users might remove this restriction.

Read

It is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/Experimental, and you only need to download and execute 'qemu-Alt-F.sh'.

Enjoy,

João

Just to let you know that I was able to use a (virtual) 8TB disk using the emulator.

I changed the qemu-Alt-F.sh script to use a qemu growable (as needed) disk format and the disk wizard was able to format it (with a minor display error). The real file size was "just" 1.1GB.

This doesn't mean that RC4.1 is able to handle real 8TB physical disks, but it's a strong evidence.

The script changed line: qemu-img create -f qcow2 qemu-disk.img 8T