ARM64 Bootstrap for VyOS

This repo can assist in bootstrapping a VyOS image for arm64, without depending on the artifacts already generated by Jenkins.

The generated image is a qcow2 that will boot on ARM Embedded and Server Base Boot systems (e.g those that use EFI)

There are also a few minor hacks/patches applied which should be upstreamed shortly.

If you are unfamiliar with the VyOS build process, see the Build VyOS page in the documentation.

Current hardware targets:

• QEMU ARM64 Virtual Machine with EDKII
• Traverse Technologies Ten64

Note: only basic routing and NAT functionality has been tested at this time.

Build requirements:

• ARM64 host (no cross compiling)

• It is best to use a Debian machine as the build host. Issues have been encountered with AppArmor on Ubuntu

• Working docker installation

• sudo access from the current user

Usage:

Run ./build.sh to build the 'vyos-build' container and then packages and image.

./build.sh

A qcow2 image will be generated under vyos-build/build/VyOS-YYYYMMDD.qcow2

Testing inside a VM

The ./testimg.sh script can be used to boot the generated qcow2 image as a QEMU/KVM virtual machine.

You need to run the script on a genuine arm64 host with virtualization capabilities.

(It is possible to run it under emulation, but YMMV).

An EDK2 "bios" binary is required, under Debian you can use the qemu-efi-aarch64 package or grab a build from retrage/edk2-nightly.

cp vyos-build/build/VyOS-YYYYMMDD.qcow2 VyOS.qcow2
sudo ./testimg.sh

(Hint: Use Ctrl-X to immediately exit qemu).

Known issues:

• It should be possible to generate an ISO image using the usual make iso, however, there appears to be issues with the syslinux setup.