[yocto] simplest recipe for running yocto qemu images?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Mar 2 04:16:08 PST 2012
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2012 06:57:57 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > ok, it *has* to be easier than this. quite simply, if one wants
> > to do nothing more than *run* one of those qemu images, there
> > should be no need to do any building or bitbaking, should there?
> > am i missing something hideously obvious?
>
> Only that we assume you *have* built the image in order to be able
> to use the runqemu script. If you haven't, well, you won't
> necessarily have some of the utilities the script looks for (e.g.
> tunctl). When the script looks for TMPDIR it is not looking for a
> temporary directory, it's looking for the TMPDIR that would have
> been set in your local.conf.
>
> The runqemu script just isn't designed to be used in the way that
> you're trying to use it.
i gathered that. but is it unreasonable to suggest that this is
something that *should* be easy to do? if new users simply want to
see what a yocto-generated image looks like under qemu, shouldn't
there be a way to let them do that without going through an entire
build?
rday
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