From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:38:26 +0000 (-0300) Subject: qemu/x86*: update instructions to use virtio X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f282b13a2794399414fe00fc19ec423b8ac98bd5;p=buildroot.git qemu/x86*: update instructions to use virtio Switch the invocation command to use virtio-blk and virtio-net for better performance. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- diff --git a/board/qemu/x86/readme.txt b/board/qemu/x86/readme.txt index 62c51b0f99..4f2e4c7da3 100644 --- a/board/qemu/x86/readme.txt +++ b/board/qemu/x86/readme.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ Run the emulation with: - qemu-system-i386 -M pc -kernel output/images/bzImage -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,if=ide,format=raw -append root=/dev/sda -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user + qemu-system-i386 -M pc -kernel output/images/bzImage -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,if=virtio,format=raw -append root=/dev/vda -net nic,model=virtio -net user Optionally add -smp N to emulate a SMP system with N CPUs. The login prompt will appear in the graphical window. -Tested with QEMU 2.3.0 +Tested with QEMU 2.5.0 diff --git a/board/qemu/x86_64/readme.txt b/board/qemu/x86_64/readme.txt index e2be5745ea..6ea28d397f 100644 --- a/board/qemu/x86_64/readme.txt +++ b/board/qemu/x86_64/readme.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ Run the emulation with: - qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -kernel output/images/bzImage -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,if=ide,format=raw -append root=/dev/sda -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user + qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -kernel output/images/bzImage -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,if=virtio,format=raw -append root=/dev/vda -net nic,model=virtio -net user Optionally add -smp N to emulate a SMP system with N CPUs. The login prompt will appear in the graphical window. -Tested with QEMU 2.3.0 +Tested with QEMU 2.5.0