Booting the N900 firmware in QEMU emulation

[toninikkanen]

With the recent releases of Maemo QEMU and the MeeGo N900 QEMU image, I was able to boot the regular N900 software up in QEMU on a Mac: http://bit.ly/aE9X2F

It doesn't boot into the GUI, since there is no SGX emulation. Maybe later...

i'm trying the same but with less success. can you post some step by step instructions how you do that? it would be very helpful.

[evilJazz]

I had the same problem on my Mac with Nokia's Qt SDK 1.0.2 beta. As I was not able to find a proper script in the distribution package, I came up with my own script:

#!/bin/bash
SDKROOT="/Users/darkstar/Playground/Development/NokiaQtSDK"
MAEMOROOT="$SDKROOT/Maemo/4.6.2"
QEMUROOT="$MAEMOROOT/tools/qemu-system-arm-0.13.50-pr13-darwin"

cd "$QEMUROOT/lib"
"$QEMUROOT/bin/qemu-system-arm" -M n900 \
        -mtdblock "$MAEMOROOT/runtimes/qemu-n900-pr13/RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.nand" \
        -sd "$MAEMOROOT/runtimes/qemu-n900-pr13/RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2.emmc" \
        -serial stdio -clock unix \
        -redir tcp:6666:10.0.2.15:22 \
        -redir tcp:13219:10.0.2.15:10000

Make sure to change SDKROOT to where you have installed the Nokia Qt SDK to. Finally make the script executable and start it.

In Qt Creator, open Preferences > Projects > Maemo Device Configurations > Add.
Name: Emulator
Device Type: Maemo emulator
everything else keep as is.

Now, click Projects in the sidebar, select the Maemo target and its run settings. Change the Device configuration to the new one we just added, i.e. Emulator.

[evilJazz]

Nevermind my previous post. Turns out it is quite simple actually.

$SDKROOT/Maemo/4.6.2/bin/mad remote -r qemu-n900-pr13 poweron

D'oh!