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

[Justin Patrin]

On 5/4/07, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Koen,
>
> Friday, May 4, 2007, 11:50:10 PM, you wrote:
> > 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.

Initial configuration of installed packages. This takes a while on the
first boot. Fixing this would greatly increase the perception of speed
of our images (although, of course, the initial boot time actually has
little to do with the boot/other speed, perception is important).

>
> > regards,
>
> > Koen
>
> > * and remove the dropbear key afterwards
>
> []
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com
>


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Justin Patrin