It seems like everybody is using Ubuntu for their development environments these days. I have nothing against Ubuntu, I just guess I’m one of the few people using Centos for my development environments. So is the way of it…
After having worked on some ARM Linux development projects lately, I’ve noticed the near complete lack of QEMU packages for Centos. Even the Epel repo doesn’t have any QEMU packages. So after a few minutes of downloading the latest QEMU tarball, creating a quick spec file and compiling the RPMs, I’ve got a nice new platform emulation environment. While I was specifically interested in having an ARM environment to work with, the new set of RPMs include all of the platforms supported by qemu.
The x86_64 RPMs are located here: http://www.opencomputingsolutions.com/pub/rpms/over/centos/6/x86_64/
You’ll need to install the base qemu RPM, plus the platform RPMs for the systems you are interested in working with.
The source RPM used to compiler the packages can be found here: http://www.opencomputingsolutions.com/pub/srpms/qemu-1.1.0-1.src.rpm
Enjoy…