2006/12/20, Wookey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
We ought to discuss if there is any significant reason not to use qemu 'machines' instead of actual hardware for slower arches.
As Wookey knows, I have been building Debian packages to bootstrap the armel port of etch under QEMU for a couple of months now, and have had all sorts of troubles which traced back to doing this on an NFSroot. Some of this is due to having to use a particularly unreliable NFS setup, but some problems are repeatable whenever you build in an NFS volume. A prime example is the "tar" testsuite which is very picky about filesystem behaviour. - With a real ARM CPU building on local (USB) storage, it passes all tests - With a real ARM CPU over NFS the testsuite fails one test (cyclic renames) - From QEMU in a locally-mounted nfsroot it fails a dozen tests. - Building with QEMU in an NBD volume passes all tests. What do your QEMU buildds use for mass storage? M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
