arm system

[nongiach]

Hey,
I figured that you have "arm system" in your prerequisites,
consider to add this to your readme.

How to quickly install an ARM virtual machine

# pip3 install arm_now
$ arm_now start armv5-eabi
Welcome to arm_now
buildroot login: root
# uname -m
armv7l

source: https://github.com/nongiach/arm_now

[umarcor]

Related to #19. I could successfully start a machine inside a docker container:

docker run --rm -it python:3-slim-stretch bash -c "\
  apt update && \
  apt install -y xz-utils libmagic1 e2tools qemu unzip && \
  pip3 install arm_now && \
  arm_now start armv7-eabihf"

However, how to get mambo built and executed there?

Once I login (buildroot login: root), neither git nor apt are available, so I cannot get the sources.

[lgeek]

@umarcor We have a QEMU system image with MAMBO already set up for you. It's mentioned in the tutorial. Pasting the relevant slide here:

Portable QEMU virtual machine image (for non-ARM hosts):
https://github.com/beehive-lab/mambo-vm/releases
To use:
# install qemu-system-aarch64
# download mambo_vm.tar.gz
mkdir mambo-vm
cd mambo-vm
tar xf /path/to/mambo_vm.tar.gz
./start_vm.sh
# SSH alarm:alarm or root:root on localhost:5040
cd /home/alarm/mambo
# make sure to change the passwords if opening SSH to the network

[nongiach]

opkg is the package manager,
opkg install git
if you have a qemu image with mambo then you are good to go, even if arm_now has few interesting features like current directory sharing ...