Spring on ARM

Setting up a virtualized environment for arm

  sudo apt-get install qemu-system

Grab an image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.10/release/

  wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.10/release/ubuntu-11.10-preinstalled-server-armel+omap.img.gz
  gzip -d ubuntu-11.10-preinstalled-server-armel+omap.img.gz

extract kernel:

  mkdir tmp
  sudo mount -o loop,ro,offset=16384 -t vfat ubuntu-11.10-preinstalled-server-armel+omap.img tmp

  qemu-system-arm -hda ubuntu-11.10-preinstalled-server-armel+omap.img