How to emulate Gaia Embedded?

[Evgeniy_Olkov]

Hi,

I am interesting, is there any way to test Gaia Embedded? Virtual machine or maybe Raspberry Pi? I know this OS for ARM cpu, but maybe there are some tricks?

[Vladimir]

Well,

The 730 appliance shows:

[Expert@drawbridge]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
Speed : 1.7GHz
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x2
CPU part : 0xc0f
CPU revision : 4

processor : 1
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
Speed : 1.7GHz
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x2
CPU part : 0xc0f
CPU revision : 4

Hardware : AnnapurnaLabs Alpine (Device Tree)
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
[Expert@drawbridge]#

This board seem to fit the bill:

https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/clearfog/ 

If you are aiming at virtualization, check out QEMU.

[Pablo_Barriga]

Hello I haven't been able to install the gaia Embedded on a Virtual Machine, do you have any procedure to do it.

[Vladimir]

Sorry Pablo, nothing concrete. As I've mentioned earlier, QEMU looks most promising, but you may have to use custom bootloader in the VM to read the Gaia Embedded image.

I've just found this old thread dedicated to same subject: checkpoint gaia embedded in virtualbox [Archive] - CPUG: The Check Point User Group that seem to led them to the same conclusion as I've suggested, but it does not look like anything came of it.

[Miri_Ofir · Accepted solution]

For now, it is impossible to run Embedded Gaia on VM.