Running in QEMU

Note

This was inspired by buildroot’s `board/qemu/x86_64/readme.txt`

Run the emulation with:

qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -kernel buildroot/output/images/bzImage -drive file=buildroot/output/images/rootfs.ext2,if=virtio,format=raw -append "rootwait root=/dev/vda console=tty1 console=ttyS0" -serial stdio -net nic,model=virtio -net user

Optionally add -smp N to emulate a SMP system with N CPUs.

The login prompt will appear in the graphical window.