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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2012-08-14 16:35:54 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2012-09-04 12:54:54 +0100
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documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml: Updated NFS server/QEMU info
Changed the first sentence of the description of how to use QEMU images with NFS server. This is feedback from Scott Garman's review. (From yocto-docs rev: 6a33b1b58bd72756baf57228b7348ff662248012) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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<filename>scp</filename> commands.
The <filename>core-image-minimal</filename> QEMU image, however, contains no ssh
server.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>The QEMU images also can be contain an embedded Network File
- System (NFS) server that exports the image's root filesystem.
- This allows you to make the filesystem available to the
- host.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>You can use a provided, user-space NFS server to boot the QEMU session
+ using a local copy of the root filesystem on the host.
+ In order to make this connection, you must extract a root filesystem tarball by using the
+ <filename>runqemu-extract-sdk</filename> command.
+ After running the command, you must then point the <filename>runqemu</filename>
+ script to the extracted directory instead of a root filesystem image file.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</note>
</section>