From 08b7044311674e4e414b2917fe6bfe161c2d83e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:35:54 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml index 989437c6c0..065cf27d83 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml @@ -369,10 +369,12 @@ scp commands. The core-image-minimal QEMU image, however, contains no ssh server. - 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. + 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 + runqemu-extract-sdk command. + After running the command, you must then point the runqemu + script to the extracted directory instead of a root filesystem image file. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf