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On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:25 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:13 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > The thing about nfs is that it's awkward to set up in an automated way.
> 
> The qemu scripts in OE-Core use usermode NFS by default for booting qemu
> images...

Yeah, indeed, and I think the mechanism that they use to do this
supports my assessment of "awkward".  But presumably it does at least
work and I guess that might be the easiest way to do glibc testing as
well.  For gcc testing I think a dedicated qemu harness is probably a
better answer.

p.