OCADrone OS : VM utilities

Tools to manage OCADrone OS from virtual machines. Tools are available in installer/ocadrone_os/vmutils/

qemu-ocadrone

This tool can start an OCADrone virtual machine in qemu. The image can still be written in the Raspbery Pi SD-Card after.

Usage

Dependencies

Script require the following:

• qemu-system-arm package (you have to install it manually)
• qemu-kernel ARM kernel. You can download it here: http://xecdesign.com/downloads/linux-qemu/kernel-qemu
• A Raspbian or OCADrone OS image.
  • Raspbian is available here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
  • OCADrone OS is build from a Raspbian installation: https://github.com/OCADrone/Installer/wiki/OCADrone-OS-:-setup

Dependencies installation

If you don't have necessary components, you can download them using the install action: qemu-ocadrone.sh install command will download the dependencies for you.

Generic instructions

You can specify in which mode to boot, where the image is stored, ... call script with --help option to see a list of available options: qemu-ocadrone.sh -h

Initial boot

If you never run Raspbian before, you'll have to disable a library loading. Boot the OS in single mode using: qemu-ocadrone.sh single and comment the line /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libcofi_rpi.so in file /etc/ld.so.preload in the virtual machine.

Normal boot

Just run qemu-ocadrone.sh to boot the system.