[yocto] runqemu qemux86
jfabernathy
jfabernathy at gmail.com
Tue May 22 10:45:25 PDT 2012
On 05/22/2012 01:42 PM, Scott Garman wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 10:26 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Scott Garman <scott.a.garman at intel.com
>> <mailto:scott.a.garman at intel.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/22/2012 08:15 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Autif Khan
>> <autif.mlist at gmail.com <mailto:autif.mlist at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:autif.mlist at gmail.com <mailto:autif.mlist at gmail.com>>__>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:43 AM, jfabernathy
>> <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>>__>
>> wrote:
>> > when testing an image using runqemu qemux86, can you get
>> networking to
>> > work?? mine comes up disabled. I want to test an application
>> that requires
>> > Internet access.
>>
>> Yes, I am able to get networking to work out of the box
>> (bitbake
>> core-image-sato, etc.) Internetworking does not work out of
>> the box.
>>
>> This is accomplished over tun/tap devices - I do not know
>> much about
>> these virtual networking devices - they have never failed
>> for me :-)
>>
>> The IP address of the emulated machine is 192.168.7.2 - The
>> IP address
>> of host machine is 192.168.7.1
>>
>> You can not (out of the box) communicate with machines other
>> than the
>> host machine - so that would included internet etc.
>>
>> So, if you have an ssh server or a web-server running on the
>> host
>> machine - you can ssh to the host machine or browse a
>> webpage using
>> the browser. Alternatively, you can run a proxy server on
>> the build
>> machine and use it to get to the internet.
>>
>> You can run ifconfig to see if the network is configured
>> properly on
>> the emulated machine in the terminal. It should show
>> 192.168.7.2 - if
>> you do not see this - you do not have networking working.
>>
>>
>> I can see the tap0 interface on my host at 192.168.7.1 by using
>> ifconfig.
>> I can also see the eth0 on the qemu machine at 192.168.7.2
>> However, my host has an ip of 10.0.1.54 with a AP gateway at
>> 10.0.1.1.
>> Somehow I need to connect the networks and I'm not sure exactly
>> how to
>> do that so that DNS servers get used and the traffic all flows.
>> Jim A
>>
>>
>> There is some sort of routing or IP forwarding bug in the sato
>> images that is due to be fixed soon. One thing I've found is you can
>> actually get out to the internet for about 30 seconds or so
>> immediately after the image boots. My suspicion is that some conman
>> script is killing the route after boot. core-image-minimal works
>> consistently, and since minimal doesn't use conman, I'm guessing
>> that is the culprit.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.__org/show_bug.cgi?id=2329
>> <https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2329>
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> So if I read this right, I don't need any route or bridge commands to
>> make this work. If the bug gets fixed runqemu qemux86 should setup the
>> environment correctly so the web-webkit should get out to the internet
>> via the host machine connection?
>> JIm A
>
> Correct.
>
> I'm hesitant to say this, but I'm hoping to have the bug fixed and
> patch submitted by the end of this week. Hopefully I haven't just
> jinxed myself. :)
>
I did try it out on core-image-minimal and I can ping anything I have
the IP for. Not sure how you get the DNS connections working in qeum.
JIm A
> Scott
>
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