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| author | Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> | 2016-04-29 14:38:26 -0300 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2016-04-30 14:58:10 +0200 |
| commit | f282b13a2794399414fe00fc19ec423b8ac98bd5 (patch) | |
| tree | be201a62d1f000b4eabc99007eed88a322ca5b24 | |
| parent | 51501c0e8545483ae19c8653bf8e910000b55d21 (diff) | |
| download | buildroot-f282b13a2794399414fe00fc19ec423b8ac98bd5.tar.gz buildroot-f282b13a2794399414fe00fc19ec423b8ac98bd5.zip | |
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 <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | board/qemu/x86/readme.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | board/qemu/x86_64/readme.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
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 |
