On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 11:50:24AM +0200, Mario Marietto via Dng wrote:
> Hello to everyone.
>
> I need to install a version of qemu less than 5.0 on my devuan for armhf on
> my ARM Chromebook,because it is needed if I want that kvm works in
> combination with it,as stated here :
>
> >From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg02074.html
>
> We deprecated the support for KVM on 32-bit Arm hosts in time
> for release 5.0, which means that our deprecation policy allows
> us to drop it in release 5.2. Remove the code.
>
>
> At the moment I'm using devuan 4 and I see that it has qemu 5.2 as default
> and it's not good. So,I have two options :
>
> 1) to install devuan 3 on the sd card (if it is shipped with qemu less than
> 5.0)
>
> 2) to use devuan 4 ; in this case,I need to recompile qemu less than 5.0
> from source code.
>
> Which option do you prefer ? thanks.

Since beowulf's qemu is only version 3.1, I'd suggest that compiling
from source would be the better option if you're comfortable with
that. (see https://pkginfo.devuan.org/qemu-system-arm)

Ralph.

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> Mario.

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