Martin Guy a écrit : > 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? >
I am using the emulated SCSI hard-disk, on the versatile platform. See http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
