Re: [poky] [PATCH v2] genericarm64.conf: fix qemu testing with testimage.bbclass

On Wed, 2026-03-11 at 14:54 +0200, Mikko Rapeli via lists.yoctoproject.org =
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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS needs snapshot since default genericarm64 image
> is a compressed wic.zst and nographic to run qemu without connected
> display which is better on headless build machines.
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> $ 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=3D24,
> skipped=3D51, failures=3D0, errors=3D0)
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1558 tasks of which 1556 didn't need to
> be rerun and all succeeded.
>=20
> To boot qemu manually (add "slirp" if tap networking not setup):
>=20
> $ runqemu nographic snapshot core-image-sato
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]>
> ---
> =C2=A0meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf | 4 ++++
> =C2=A01 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>=20
> v2: dropper slirp from TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS
>=20
> v1: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/poky/message/13854
>=20
> diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf b/meta-yocto-b=
sp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> index 2b1ce4bdd02b..d6839d16a515 100644
> --- a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> +++ b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
> @@ -73,5 +73,9 @@ QB_TCPSERIAL_OPT ?=3D "-device virtio-serial-pci -chard=
ev socket,id=3Dvirtcon,port=3D@
> =C2=A0# Virtio networking
> =C2=A0QB_TAP_OPT ?=3D "-netdev tap,id=3Dnet0,ifname=3D@TAP@,script=3Dno,d=
ownscript=3Dno"
> =C2=A0
> +# default to nographic to work on headless build machines using testimag=
e.bbclass, snapshot for wic.zst image type
> +TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS ?=3D "nographic snapshot"
> +# basic qemu testimage.bbclass support
> +TESTIMAGEDEPENDS:append =3D " qemu-native:do_populate_sysroot qemu-helpe=
r-native:do_populate_sysroot qemu-helper-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot"
> =C2=A0# If we're running testimage then we're in a qemu, so ensure u-boot=
 is build
> =C2=A0TESTIMAGEDEPENDS:append =3D " u-boot:do_deploy"

I'll try again.

nographic does not make sense here, genericarm64 supports graphics as
far as I know. The limitations of the test environment should not be
hardcoded into the machine definition.

There are patches which I sent recently against master which fix that
issue in a better way and will mean this is not needed. I am therefore
not going to take that as it is confusing, incorrect and not actually
needed.

Cheers,

Richard