[Buildroot] Creating a filesystem for QEMU

[Mark Constable <markc@renta.net>]

Bogdan Cristea wrote:
>    Thank you for your feedback, I'll try to explore these options in the next 
> days. IMHO it could be extremely useful to have these indications into the 
> help page of buildroot.
>    Could you expand a little more the last option (Create an ext2 filesystem 
> and write it on a qemu disk through an install cdrom). I don't understand that 
> part.

It's also possible to loop mount a qemu image if you do not
use -f qcow...

> qemu-img create qemu.img 4G
> mount -o loop,offset=32256 qemu.img /mnt

then, for instance, if you created a tarball from Buildroot
then you should be able to extract the tarball to a temp
directory and rsync -av /temp/ /mnt

I haven't tried this but it might work.

--markc