Testing with QEMU

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QEMU is great for testing images and apps. There is no need to flash or install images back and forth on real hardware. Here are a few things that may help you testing OE stuff with QEMU.

Do's and Dont's

• use at least version 0.9x of qemu, earlier versions are unreliable
• if possible use the poky-qemu and poky-scripts, they are more widely tested than stock qemu

good to know

• official documentation
• Ctrl+Alt+1: guest OS
• Ctrl+Alt+2: qemu monitor (supports tab-completion, hint: sendkey)
• Ctrl+Alt+3: serial console
• Ctrl+Alt+4: parallel console (?)
• logfile at ???
• some more info in the Angstrom wiki