From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:32452 "EHLO david.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752525Ab3AVIpQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:45:16 -0500 Message-ID: <50FE5157.7070309@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:44:07 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers References: <20130121221558.GS30577@one.firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <20130121221558.GS30577@one.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jason Wessel , "kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net" , Tom Tromey , Ben Widawsky , "David S. Miller" , Fenghua Yu , Kay Sievers , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" , Michal Marek , "sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" , Tony Luck On 2013-01-21 23:15, Andi Kleen wrote: >> >> o Install that kernel on the guest > > If you use a static kernel you can also do > > - copy the initrd out of the guest once > > qemu... -bzImage kernel -initrd initrd -kernel/append/initrd, of course. > > This saves the step of getting the kernel into the kernel. > Doesn't work with modules unfortunately. True. An alternative can be nfsroot. Or root on virtfs. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux