[yocto] how to cleanly exit a QEMU session?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 November 2011 18:00:31 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i'm sure it's in one of the docs i missed, but how does one cleanly
> > shut down a QEMU session and get back to the original terminal
> > session?  i've tried shutdown and poweroff but neither of those gives
> > me my shell prompt back.
>
> Which machine are you running within the emulator? I know some emulated
> machines don't seem to support actually powering off - does reboot work?

  qemuppc, core-image-minimal.  interestingly, "poweroff" doesn't
completely close the QEMU session, but "reboot" does.  it might be
worth adding that to the quick start guide.

rday

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