shrinkwrap-tool 2026.2.1

Shrinkwrap tool for building and running Arm FVPs

Shrinkwrap

Shrinkwrap is a tool to simplify the process of building and running firmware on Arm Fixed Virtual Platforms (FVP). Users simply invoke the tool to build the required config, then pass their own kernel and rootfs to the tool to boot the full system on FVP.

• Documentation is available at: ReadTheDocs
• Source Code is available at: GitLab
• Shrinkwrap Container Images are available at: DockerHub

The documentation (linked above) contains a QuickStart section, which details how to install and use the tool. However, if you are in a hurry, here are the minimal steps:

NOTE: This assumes you have Python >=3.9.0 and docker installed. If this is not the case, please refer to the documentation.

  sudo apt-get install git netcat-openbsd python3 python3-pip telnet
  python3 -m venv .venv
  source .venv/bin/activate
  python -m pip install --upgrade pip
  python -m pip install shrinkwrap

  shrinkwrap --help