[yocto] TEST_IMAGE issues

[Scott Rifenbark]

There is nothing in the docs that says that an image must contain "-image"
or "image-".

Maybe someone can tell me if we should have that.

Scott

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:44 AM, Mirza Krak <mirza at mkrak.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Med Vänliga Hälsningar / Best Regards
>
> Mirza Krak
> email: mirza at mkrak.org
> web: https://mkrak.org
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