[yocto] QEMU nfs kernel panic

Jack Mitchell ml at communistcode.co.uk
Wed Sep 28 05:42:57 PDT 2011


On 27/09/2011 16:07, Zhang, Jessica wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> The minimal-dev image doesn't contain tcf-agent which is needed for any remote interaction.  So can you build core-image-sato-sdk image and use it to boot up qemu, then your problem will be solved.
>
> Thanks,
> Jessica
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Jack Mitchell
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:05 AM
> To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] QEMU nfs kernel panic
>
> On 27/09/2011 10:05, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>> I am using the stock sysroot and arm kernel zImage downloaded from the
>> yocto site. When I try to boot QEMU all is well until it tries to
>> mount the nfs root filesystem. It can't find it and the kernel panics,
>> I have set --debug all on in the runqemu-export-rootfs script but it
>> throws no further errors. Does anyone have any idea why it would do
>> this, is it possible that there is something wrong with the nfs
>> implementation in the kernel and the module is not loaded correctly,
>> or is it more likely that the nfs share isn't mounted on my machine
>> and the kernel cannot find it.
>>
>> Screenshot of kernel panic: http://imgur.com/UbPTT
>>
>> The only thing that jumps out at me is in the kernel boot up the
>> rootfs doesn't have a value as can be seen in the screenshot, but I
>> don't know if this is normal or not?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jack.
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> Ok, I managed to fix it. I needed to load the tun module to get it
> working. Maybe this should be added as a check in runqemu?
>
> I am now having issues with connecting to the live image, I recieve a
> connection refused message when I try to upload the file to the virtual
> machine, I have just the stick minimal-dev image so no additional
> passwords set.
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Thank you Jessica, that solved my problem of being unable to connect to 
the virtual machine.

Regards,
Jack.



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