[yocto] TEST_IMAGE issues

[Mirza Krak]

Hi all!

Found something interesting (perhaps).

So we where thinking about enabling some of the OE QA tests that that
are part of poky.

Seemed pretty straight forward. Added following to local.conf:

    INHERIT += "testimage"

Build my image and then tried to run:

    bitbake -c testimage <image name>

To my despair it did not work and instead produced an error. Tried
both on "pyro" and "rocko" branches. The error was:

    | runqemu started, pid is 45087
    | NOTE: runqemu started, pid is 45087
    | waiting at most 60 seconds for qemu pid
    | NOTE: waiting at most 60 seconds for qemu pid
    | runqemu exited with code 1
    | NOTE: runqemu exited with code 1
    | Output from runqemu:
    | runqemu - ERROR - Unknown path arg
<masked>/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/genivi-dev-platform-qemux86-64.ext4
    | runqemu - ERROR - Try 'runqemu help' on how to use it

Some (a lot) digging later, I finally figured out that error occurs
because the image name does not contain "-image" or "image-". runqemu
is not able to parse it and throws a "unknown" argument error (not
that obvious from the print).

I realize that this is a "problem" in runqemu and not much to do about
it with a large refactoring job on the runqemu application.

But I am looking for suggesting for an appropriate workaround, other
then renaming the image which I have verified works.

Does it say somewhere in the docs that all image files must contain
"-image" or "image-" in their name? If that is the case it makes sense
to rename it, but trying to avoid that.

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Med Vänliga Hälsningar / Best Regards

Mirza Krak
email: mirza at mkrak.org
web: https://mkrak.org