[Angstrom-devel] RFC: using qemu system emulation to speed up 'first' boot?

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Koen,

Friday, May 4, 2007, 11:50:10 PM, you wrote:

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> Hi,

> Qemu upstream now support a few zaurus models, and in a few weeks it will support the
> neo1973 as well. Should we boot images for those machines in qemu to run all the tedious
> first boot stuff[*], make a snapshot and ship that?

        Hm, hardly. What's so tedious in the first boot to bother to
such extent (unless zauruses are special in this respect of course ;-))?

        However following would be highly helpful stuff to do with
qemu:

0. (prerequisite) do timely, regular *automated* builds for *all*
supported machines (and all machines available in OE should be supported).
1. Use QEMU to do automated QA on the images - capture kernel boot log
over virtual serial, check for errors; capture init boot log over the
same serial, check for errors, check availability of SSH connection,
etc., etc.

> regards,

> Koen

> * and remove the dropbear key afterwards

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