@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
Using OE images with QEMU
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-OE-Core can generate qemu bootable kernels and images with can be used
+OE-Core can generate qemu bootable kernels and images which can be used
on a desktop system. The scripts currently support booting ARM, MIPS, PowerPC
-and x86 (32 and 64 bit) images. The scripts can be used within the OE build
-system or externaly.
+and x86 (32 and 64 bit) images. The scripts can be used within the OE build
+system or externally.
-The runqemu script is run as:
+The runqemu script is run as:
runqemu <machine> <zimage> <filesystem>
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ where:
<machine> is the machine/architecture to use (qemuarm/qemumips/qemuppc/qemux86/qemux86-64)
<zimage> is the path to a kernel (e.g. zimage-qemuarm.bin)
<filesystem> is the path to an ext2 image (e.g. filesystem-qemuarm.ext2) or an nfs directory
-
-If <machine> isn't specified, the script will try to detect the machine name
+
+If <machine> isn't specified, the script will try to detect the machine name
from the name of the <zimage> file.
If <filesystem> isn't specified, nfs booting will be assumed.
-When used within the build system, it will default to qemuarm, ext2 and the last kernel and
+When used within the build system, it will default to qemuarm, ext2 and the last kernel and
core-image-sato-sdk image built by the build system. If an sdk image isn't present it will look
for sato and minimal images.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Full usage instructions can be seen by running the command with no options speci
Notes
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- - The scripts run qemu using sudo. Change perms on /dev/net/tun to
+ - The scripts run qemu using sudo. Change perms on /dev/net/tun to
run as non root. The runqemu-gen-tapdevs script can also be used by
root to prepopulate the appropriate network devices.
- You can access the host computer at 192.168.7.1 within the image.