[PATCH v3] genericarm64.conf: fix qemu testing with testimage.bbclass

[PATCH v3] genericarm64.conf: fix qemu testing with testimage.bbclass

[Mikko Rapeli]

genericarm64 machine has supported qemu for a long time but
the default build config failed with testimage.bbclass to boot
and run oeqa runtime tests.

TESTIMAGEDEPENDS needs qemu utilities so that they are correctly
installed to image sysroot. For qemu machines these are set in
testimage.bbclass but remain unset for non-qemu machines like
genericarm64.

TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS needs snapshot since default genericarm64 image
is a compressed wic.zst.

With these set, default genericarm64 core-image-sato boots correctly
with testimage.bbclass and all oeqa runtime tests pass on an x86_64
build machine:

$ bitbake core-image-sato && bitbake -c testimage core-image-sato
...
SUMMARY:
core-image-sato () - Ran 75 tests in 229.248s
core-image-sato - OK - All required tests passed (successes=24,
skipped=51, failures=0, errors=0)
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1558 tasks of which 1556 didn't need to
be rerun and all succeeded.

To boot qemu manually (add "slirp" if tap networking not setup,
and "nographic" if qemu graphics not setup):

$ runqemu snapshot core-image-sato

Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>
---
 meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

v3: dropping nographic from TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS, both this
    and slirp are limitations of test environment and
    need to be set in local.conf or similar

v2: dropper slirp from TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS
    https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/poky/message/13859

v1: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/poky/message/13854

diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
index 2b1ce4bdd02b..be34a5605c24 100644
--- a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
+++ b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
@@ -73,5 +73,9 @@ QB_TCPSERIAL_OPT ?= "-device virtio-serial-pci -chardev socket,id=virtcon,port=@
 # Virtio networking
 QB_TAP_OPT ?= "-netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=@TAP@,script=no,downscript=no"
 
+# snapshot for wic.zst image type
+TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS ?= "snapshot"
+# basic qemu testimage.bbclass support
+TESTIMAGEDEPENDS:append = " qemu-native:do_populate_sysroot qemu-helper-native:do_populate_sysroot qemu-helper-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot"
 # If we're running testimage then we're in a qemu, so ensure u-boot is build
 TESTIMAGEDEPENDS:append = " u-boot:do_deploy"
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH v3] genericarm64.conf: fix qemu testing with testimage.bbclass

[Mikko Rapeli]

Hi,

Could this be applied to master branch?

Cheers,

-Mikko

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 03:32:02PM +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> genericarm64 machine has supported qemu for a long time but
> the default build config failed with testimage.bbclass to boot
> and run oeqa runtime tests.
> 
> TESTIMAGEDEPENDS needs qemu utilities so that they are correctly
> installed to image sysroot. For qemu machines these are set in
> testimage.bbclass but remain unset for non-qemu machines like
> genericarm64.
> 
> TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS needs snapshot since default genericarm64 image
> is a compressed wic.zst.
> 
> With these set, default genericarm64 core-image-sato boots correctly
> with testimage.bbclass and all oeqa runtime tests pass on an x86_64
> build machine:
> 
> $ bitbake core-image-sato && bitbake -c testimage core-image-sato
> ...
> SUMMARY:
> core-image-sato () - Ran 75 tests in 229.248s
> core-image-sato - OK - All required tests passed (successes=24,
> skipped=51, failures=0, errors=0)
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1558 tasks of which 1556 didn't need to
> be rerun and all succeeded.
> 
> To boot qemu manually (add "slirp" if tap networking not setup,
> and "nographic" if qemu graphics not setup):
> 
> $ runqemu snapshot core-image-sato
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>
> ---
>  meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> v3: dropping nographic from TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS, both this
>     and slirp are limitations of test environment and
>     need to be set in local.conf or similar
> 
> v2: dropper slirp from TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS
>     https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/poky/message/13859
> 
> v1: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/poky/message/13854
> 
> diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> index 2b1ce4bdd02b..be34a5605c24 100644
> --- a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> +++ b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> @@ -73,5 +73,9 @@ QB_TCPSERIAL_OPT ?= "-device virtio-serial-pci -chardev socket,id=virtcon,port=@
>  # Virtio networking
>  QB_TAP_OPT ?= "-netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=@TAP@,script=no,downscript=no"
>  
> +# snapshot for wic.zst image type
> +TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS ?= "snapshot"
> +# basic qemu testimage.bbclass support
> +TESTIMAGEDEPENDS:append = " qemu-native:do_populate_sysroot qemu-helper-native:do_populate_sysroot qemu-helper-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot"
>  # If we're running testimage then we're in a qemu, so ensure u-boot is build
>  TESTIMAGEDEPENDS:append = " u-boot:do_deploy"
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>