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Title: Qemu Bitbake Image - Jun 17, 2005
Post by: ironstorm on June 17, 2005, 05:45:47 pm

This image is a working OE build environment inside a QEMU disk image.

Thanks to offroadgeek for hosting:
https://www.oesf.org/howto/downloads/OE-Bit...MU-20050617.zip (https://www.oesf.org/howto/downloads/OE-Bitbake-QEMU-20050617.zip)

Requirements:
- QEMU pc emulator For Windows (http://www.freeoszoo.org/ftp/qemu/win32/daily/QemuInstall-20050605.exe) For Linux (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html)
- A PC that can spare 256MB RAM to run the guest image
- A Disk that can spare 6GB+ space
- A day or so to build a Zaurus opie-image
- An SSH client is highly recommended (i.e. PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html))

To set-up:
On windows:
- Unzip into the QEMU directory (i.e. C:\Program Files\QEMU)
- start-oe-bitbake-QEMU.bat
- once "login: " appears you can SSH as user/pass: oe/oe
- read the login message / readme file (same file)

Other notes:
I recommend you replace the oe-configure.sh script with the one attached to this posting (i.e. use FileZilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/) to SFTP it to localhost), but it is not essential if you don't mind setting up the compile output partition yourself.

Compiled Z image output ends up in a deploy subdirectory of oe-build/build...  (do a find ~/oe-build | grep deploy for exact path)

It's slow the first time through (i.e. ~18-24hrs to build everything for opie-image) but at least you can watch it doing it's thing and once built only new/unbuilt packages need to be rebuilt the next run.  I'd be curious to know how fast someone can bitbake opie-image on a Linux host with KQEMU accelerator installed.

Cheers,

-Ironstorm

PS: thanks to those in IRC who help with answers to my silly questions and especially to offroadgeek for hosting.

Title: Qemu Bitbake Image - Jun 17, 2005
Post by: ironstorm on June 19, 2005, 03:57:44 am

To speed things up folks probably want to install hdparm:

sudo apt-get install hdparm; sudo hdparm -d1 -c3 -u1 /dev/hda; sudo hdparm -d1 -c3 -u1 /dev/hdb