On 24 May 2012 19:45, Riku Voipio riku.voipio@linaro.org wrote:

On 24 May 2012 05:45, Michael Hope michael.hope@linaro.org wrote:

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Hi Peter, Riku.  I've written up a page covering the KVM integration work done this quarter at:  https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Outputs/KVMIntegration

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Could you review it please, including the instructions at:  https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Outputs/KVMIntegration/Quick...

The KVMIntegration page looks ok, but the Quickstart page could be even shorter and do a few changes:

1. the section about installing semihosting bootwrapper is unneeded -

the kvm-boot-wrapper comes with hwpack already, so when you create the fast model image, there will be a img.axf in the directory, wich is the kvm-bootwrapper. Then instead of:

/path/to/RTSM_A15x124_VE/bin/RTSM_VE_Cortex-A15x1 \  /usr/share/kvm-boot-wrapper/linux-system-semi.axf \ ...

/path/to/RTSM_A15x124_VE/bin/RTSM_VE_Cortex-A15x1 \  img.axf \

Changed. Bumped the boot wrapper to a end of page 'Notes' section.

2. apt-get install python-software-properties openssh-server

If these are important, I can include in the images by default. I know apt-get install in the fast model is rather slow.

I like starting a guest then using SSH from there. It's nice as you have a full terminal and can do basic things like scp without setting up NFS. Please add openssh-server.

3. add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/staging-overlay

This is unnecessary, staging-overlay is already in the sources.list.d in the images. just aot-get update

Bumped to Notes. Added a note saying this is already set in the LEB.

4. BUG: faults as there's no AXF file

This is fixed in the pending merge request:

https://code.launchpad.net/~riku-voipio/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tool...

I see that's approved. I'll update the bzr revno on the output page once you've committed it.

5. Run linaro-media-create --image-file=guest.img --image-size=300M

perhaps you could suggest making a bigger guest.img (500M) and then convert it to a sparse qcow2 file:

qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 guest.img guest.qcow2

Bumped to 500 M as there's the space. Put the qcow2 note in Notes.

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It overlaps with the howtos that you both have but is supposed to be both short and a snapshot in time.

My howto can be deprecated as soon as there is a more official guide.

I think we want two: a end user 'install this, install that' guide that links out to the details of how it was produced and developed. Perhaps a merge of yours and Peter's?

-- Michael

On 24 May 2012 16:04, Peter Maydell peter.maydell@linaro.org wrote:

On 24 May 2012 03:45, Michael Hope michael.hope@linaro.org wrote:

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Hi Peter, Riku.  I've written up a page covering the KVM integration work done this quarter at:  https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Outputs/KVMIntegration

Could you review it please, including the instructions at:  https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Outputs/KVMIntegration/Quick...

The quickstart instructions don't work for me:

$ linaro-media-create --image-file=host.img --image-size=1.9G --output-directory=host --dev fastmodel --hwpack hwpack_linaro*kvm-host* --hwpack-force-yes --binary linaro-precise-dev* [snip lots of output] Done

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proc has been unmounted Traceback (most recent call last):  File "/usr/bin/linaro-media-create", line 183, in <module>    args.should_format_rootfs, args.should_align_boot_part)  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/linaro_image_tools/media_create/partitions.py", line 134, in setup_partitions    image_size_in_bytes = convert_size_to_bytes(image_size)  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/linaro_image_tools/media_create/partitions.py", line 487, in convert_size_to_bytes    real_size = int(size[:-1]) ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1.9'

...I guess it doesn't like the non-integer image-size option?

the float option requires revision >= 516. It will be in l-i-t 2012.05.