with latest master, runqemu will report error: runqemu bzImage-qemux86.bin myimage-qemux86.ext3 Set MACHINE to [qemux86] based on kernel [bzImage-qemux86.bin] Continuing with the following parameters: KERNEL: [bzImage-qemux86.bin] ROOTFS: [myimage-qemux86.ext3] FSTYPE: [ext3] /sysroots/i686-linux Setting up tap interface under sudo [sudo] password for jzhang: Error: Unable to find tunctl binary in '/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin' And the issue seems due to TMPDIR is not setup correct, which shows empty
I've verified that this happens under the particular condition of when you run the runqemu script from a directory where bitbake -e does not work - Jessica's original case she sent me had her running runqemu from the tmp/deploy/images directory. The dependency of requiring the bitbake command to work to determine TMPDIR was introduced with this commit: http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=81d14f5629b4eeb2096ccb52812e5775fe0125e9 The commit message indicates that we can no longer infer TMPDIR from BUILDDIR, so I'm not sure that we can allow runqemu to be run from arbitrary directories anymore for in-tree Poky configurations. I think the best I can do is add a test to make sure the bitbake -e command returned successfully, and notify this restriction to the user.
I've pushed a proposed fix to my branch: http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=sgarman/runqemu-fix and submitted a pull request to the oe-core ML.
Fixed in oe-core and poky master: http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core/commit/?id=ab5544ac801a976b56468ade0f5d2e95c11feb87 http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=3fddac4ee959cc09d67a50d4623c29175bee26f0