From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/940 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: Test environment for non-native archs Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 22:45:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20120529024512.GL163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20120527031840.GC163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338259816 9972 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2012 02:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 02:50:16 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-941-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue May 29 04:50:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SZCVi-0000lS-IZ for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2012 04:50:14 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 24414 invoked by uid 550); 29 May 2012 02:50:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 24400 invoked from network); 29 May 2012 02:50:14 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:940 Archived-At: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:03:20AM +0000, Roy Tam wrote: > Rich Felker aerifal.cx> writes: > > This seems to be possible with qemu's support for exporting a virtual > > 9p share to the guest OS, but I haven't yet determined if it's > > possible to boot directly with the 9p share as the root fs, or whether > > it's going to require a separate initial fs image and switch/pivot > > root afterwards (as you can tell, I'm not very familiar with this sort > > of setup). > > > > Anyone know the answer, or have some recipes I could use? > > > > What about Aboriginal Linux? > http://www.landley.net/code/aboriginal/ That's what I've been using as a test platform, but it doesn't have the option to boot from 9p virtfs. Landley should have a 3.4 kernel in Aboriginal soon though, and since that supposedly has boot-from-9p, I should be able to setup the test environment I want (everything on the host's fs) using it once it's released. Of course I could do it now if I compile my own ARM kernel, but I'd rather spend my time working on other things at the moment... Rich