1 Normally, a minimal initrd is created automatically by the rcutorture
2 scripting. But minimal really does mean "minimal", namely just a single
3 root directory with a single statically linked executable named "init":
5 $ size tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd/init
6 text data bss dec hex filename
7 328 0 8 336 150 tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd/init
9 Suppose you need to run some scripts, perhaps to monitor or control
10 some aspect of the rcutorture testing. This will require a more fully
11 filled-out userspace, perhaps containing libraries, executables for
12 the shell and other utilities, and soforth. In that case, place your
13 desired filesystem here:
15 tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd
17 For example, your tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd/init might
18 be a script that does any needed mount operations and starts whatever
19 scripts need starting to properly monitor or control your testing.
20 The next rcutorture build will then incorporate this filesystem into
21 the kernel image that is passed to qemu.
23 Or maybe you need a real root filesystem for some reason, in which case
26 The remainder of this document describes one way to create the
27 rcu-test-image file that contains the filesystem used by the guest-OS
28 kernel. There are probably much better ways of doing this, and this
29 filesystem could no doubt be smaller. It is probably also possible to
30 simply download an appropriate image from any number of places.
32 That said, here are the commands:
34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
35 dd if=/dev/zero of=rcu-test-image bs=400M count=1
36 mkfs.ext3 ./rcu-test-image
37 sudo mount -o loop ./rcu-test-image /mnt
39 # Replace "precise" below with your favorite Ubuntu release.
40 # Empirical evidence says this image will work for 64-bit, but...
41 # Note that debootstrap does take a few minutes to run. Or longer.
42 sudo debootstrap --verbose --arch i386 precise /mnt http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
43 cat << '___EOF___' | sudo dd of=/mnt/etc/fstab
44 # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
46 /dev/vda / ext3 defaults 1 1
48 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
49 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
50 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
51 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
59 http://sripathikodi.blogspot.com/2010/02/creating-kvm-bootable-fedora-system.html
60 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/CreateGuests
61 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder
62 http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/UbuntuKVMWalkthrough
63 http://www.moe.co.uk/2011/01/07/pci_add_option_rom-failed-to-find-romfile-pxe-rtl8139-bin/ -- "apt-get install kvm-pxe"
64 https://www.landley.net/writing/rootfs-howto.html
65 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd
66 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpio
67 http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/UbuntuKVMWalkthrough