[yocto] do QEMU images really come with dropbear and an nfs server?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Scott Garman wrote:

> On 07/27/2012 07:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >    the yocto dev manual currently suggests that QEMU images come with
> > both dropbear and an nfs server:
> >
> > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#using-pre-built-binaries-and-qemu
> >
> > i don't have a QEMU image in front of me to test, but the definition
> > of the basic QEMU images doesn't seem to suggest that that's true.
> >
> >    i can see it's easy to add them, but the manual suggests they're
> > there by default.  or am i misreading something?
>
> It looks like we may need a manual tweak here.
>
> core-image-minimal does not come with any ssh server. core-image-lsb
> should have openssh instead of dropbear. So unless something changed
> very recently, core-image-sato is the only one that has dropbear in
> it by default.
>
> Also, the manual states "The QEMU images also contain an embedded
> Network File System (NFS) server that exports the image's root
> filesystem." This isn't strictly true - instead we offer a native
> tool which runs a userspace NFS server and if some prep work is done
> by the user (extracting a rootfs tarball with runqemu-extract-sdk),
> you can then point the runqemu script to that directory instead of a
> rootfs image file.

  rather than a simple manual tweak, what about actually adding one or
both of those features to even the smaller core images, then updating
the docs accordingly?  just a thought.

rday


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