On Fri, 2023-02-24 at 16:05 +0000, Richard Purdie via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 15:44 -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > Add ext4 explicitly to the list of IMAGE_FSTYPES so the build appliance can 
> > be
> > run with runqemu.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoer...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb 
> > b/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
> > index 064e7a1ed82f..e28096758b9b 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
> > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> >  SUMMARY = "An image containing the build system itself"
> > -DESCRIPTION = "An image containing the build system that you can boot and 
> > run using either VirtualBox, VMware Player or VMware Workstation."
> > +DESCRIPTION = "An image containing the build system that you can boot and 
> > run using any of qemu, VirtualBox, VMware Player or VMware Workstation."
> >  HOMEPAGE = "http://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/build-appliance";
> >  
> >  LICENSE = "MIT"
> > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "41943040"
> >  APPEND += "rootfstype=ext4 quiet"
> >  
> >  DEPENDS = "zip-native python3-pip-native"
> > -IMAGE_FSTYPES = "wic.vmdk wic.vhd wic.vhdx"
> > +IMAGE_FSTYPES = "ext4 wic.vmdk wic.vhd wic.vhdx"
> >  
> >  inherit core-image setuptools3
> >  
> 
> I've held off this one since whilst it isn't wrong as such, the ext
> images aren't exactly optimal. I think our hope was that we could use
> the vmdk or vhdx images with qemu instead and then directly test the
> ones we publicly share. Do you know if that could work? It may then
> mean people don't need to handle multiple files too?

I quickly tried:

qemu-system-x86_64 
tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/build-appliance-image-qemux86-64.wic.vmdk 
-enable-kvm

and it nearly works (splash screen displayed but then went blank) so I
suspect runqemu could likely learn to run these relatively easily.

Cheers,

Richard



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