What are the right settings for Ubuntu Touch under qemu?

Question

As you can see here, Canonical is releasing the images for Ubuntu touch, the problem is that apparently those are snapshots from a complete installation, there is no installer here and no vmlinuz + initrd.

Also in qemu-system-arm -M help there is no platform that can fit one of the 4 that are officially supported, Does anyone knows how to run Ubuntu touch under qemu ? I have tried the classic way with kernel options and different boot options but nothing happens, I also can't really figure out what Canonical means with bootimg, they are supposed to be initrd ? kernel images ?

Answer 1

Boot.img are images for fastboot that contain the kernel. It's android specific. You can unpack these, but there is no build for a reference board that Qemu supports.

You can run Unity-next on the desktop. This is build in Qt and QML so as long as all dependies are build on the desktop, it can run. Here's a how-to: http://unity.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/development/unitynext/