[yocto] simplest recipe for running yocto qemu images?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Mar 2 04:32:40 PST 2012
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2012 07:16:08 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I see what you're saying, but the problem with this is the qemu
> version we build is not the same as qemu that might be installed on
> the host machine. We apply quite a number of patches to qemu in
> order to support features we need (such as GL); if you allow
> beginners to easily use something else then it just makes support
> harder because certain things that normally work in the current
> setup will not work when the host tools are being used instead.
i briefly saw your point until i noticed that the yocto toolchain i
installed comes with qemu-system-* executables, which would take
precedence over the normal host ones, so i'm still skeptical.
i'm going to mess with this a bit longer since i can't believe it
should be hard to tweak this to get it to work. no matter what
happens, i'm sure i'll come out of it smarter.
rday
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