Running under QEMU¶

TuxRun allows to run a linux kernel under QEMU.

Supported devices

See the architecture matrix for the supported devices.

Boot testing¶

In order to run a simple boot test on arm64:

tuxrun --device qemu-arm64 --kernel http://storage.tuxboot.com/arm64/Image

Artefact URLs

Artefacts (kernel, dtb, rootfs, ...) can be either local or remote (http/https url). TuxRun will automatically download a remote artefacts.

Modules overlay¶

TuxRun allows to provide a custom modules.tar.xz archive that will be extracted on top of the rootfs.

tuxrun --device qemu-arm64 \
       --kernel http://storage.tuxboot.com/arm64/Image \
       --modules modules.tar.xz

Modules format

The modules archive should be a tar archive, compressed with xz.

Overlays

Any overlay can be applied to the rootfs with the --overlay option. This option can be specified multiple times. Each overlay should be a tar archive compressed with xz.

Boot arguments¶

You can specify custom boot arguments with:

tuxrun --device qemu-arm64 \
       --kernel http://storage.tuxboot.com/arm64/Image \
       --boot-args "initcall_debug"

Running tests¶

You can run a specific test with:

tuxrun --device qemu-arm64 \
       --kernel http://storage.tuxboot.com/arm64/Image \
       --tests ltp-smoke

Multiple tests

Multiple tests can be specified after --tests. The tests will be executed one by one, in the order specified on the command-line.

Custom qemu version¶

You can provide a container with qemu already installed. TuxRun will use qemu from this container:

tuxrun --device qemu-armv5 \
       --qemu-image docker.io/qemu/qemu:latest

Custom command¶

You can run any command inside the VM with:

tuxrun --device qemu-arm64 \
       --kernel http://storage.tuxboot.com/arm64/Image \
       -- cat /proc/cpuinfo

Command and tests

When combining a custom command and tests, the custom command will be ran after all the tests.

Timeouts¶

You can override the default timeouts with:

tuxrun --device qemu-armv5 \
       --tests ltp-smoke
       --timeouts deploy=10 boot=12 ltp-smoke=32

This will set the timeouts to:

deploy: 10 minutes
boot: 12 minutes
ltp-smoke: 32 minutes

TuxMake and TuxBuild¶

You can run tests against TuxMake or TuxBuild artefacts with --tuxmake or --tuxbuild:

tuxrun --tuxmake ~/.cache/tuxmake/builds/1
tuxrun --tuxbuild https://builds.tuxbuild.com/<ksuid>/

default device

For some architectures (like ARM), the tuxrun device should be specified with --device.