[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] runqemu: Use virtio to mount cdrom drives

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Aug 23 07:40:20 UTC 2017


The IDE driver in the kernel is fragile and in 4.12 is causing backtraces.
To unblock 4.12 kernel merging use the virtio CD driver instead to mount
iso images which should be faster and more stable.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py | 2 +-
 scripts/runqemu                         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
index 8805a38..1991be7 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ SYSLINUX_TIMEOUT = "10"
         cmd = "%s %s iso" % (self.cmd_common, self.machine)
         with runqemu(self.recipe, ssh=False, launch_cmd=cmd) as qemu:
             with open(qemu.qemurunnerlog) as f:
-                self.assertTrue(' -cdrom ' in f.read(), "Failed: %s" % cmd)
+                self.assertTrue('media=cdrom' in f.read(), "Failed: %s" % cmd)
 
     @OETestID(2004)
     def test_boot_recipe_image(self):
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
index fd2717e..1131324 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/scripts/runqemu
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ class BaseConfig(object):
             vm_drive = ''
             if self.fstype in self.vmtypes:
                 if self.fstype == 'iso':
-                    vm_drive = '-cdrom %s' % self.rootfs
+                    vm_drive = '-drive file=%s,if=virtio,media=cdrom' % self.rootfs
                 elif self.get('QB_DRIVE_TYPE'):
                     drive_type = self.get('QB_DRIVE_TYPE')
                     if drive_type.startswith("/dev/sd"):
-- 
2.7.4




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