staging/xback/scripts/qemustart, branch master

scripts: add --user-network to qemustart

2026-05-21T14:06:25Z

qemustart is a handy script to quickly test OpenWrt firmware using qemu. Bringing up networking currently requires a bridge-helper setup with privileged IP and bridge assignment. To simplify testing scenarios like the package manager, which need both shell access and outbound internet, add a user-mode networking option backed by SLIRP that requires no privileges. To stay backward compatible, the defaults don't change. The new flag --user-network attaches two NICs (LAN + WAN) and forwards three host ports to the guest LAN interface (192.168.1.1): 2222 -> 22 (ssh), 8080 -> 80 (http) and 8443 -> 443 (https). The host-side ports can be overridden with --ssh-port, --http-port and --https-port. Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/23424 Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren

scripts: fix lan/wan order of malta in qemustart

2026-05-21T14:06:25Z

OpenWrt's 99-default_network assigns eth0 to lan and eth1 to wan when no target-specific 02_network is present, which is the case for malta. The qemustart bridge block however placed the wan -device before the lan -device, so the guest's eth0 (lan) ended up attached to $BR_WAN and eth1 (wan) to $BR_LAN. Swap the order to match the guest's actual role assignment. Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/23424 Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren

scripts: update malta kernel path in qemustart

2026-02-10T23:08:34Z

Update the default kernel path in start_qemu_malta() to match the new image naming scheme after the malta target was converted to the Device macro system with device name 'generic'. Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren

scripts: qemustart: Fix x86/legacy bootup

2023-08-14T21:37:04Z

The ide-drive option was renamed to ide-hd in qemu 6.0. With this change qemu is starting again on Debian 12. Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens

scripts: qemustart: change armvirt references to armsr

2023-06-10T19:30:24Z

The armvirt target has been renamed to 'armsr' (Arm SystemReady) after inclusion of EFI support. Change references (including subtargets) accordingly. Signed-off-by: Mathew McBride

scripts: qemustart: support CONFIG_BINARY_FOLDER

2023-02-03T20:22:49Z

If CONFIG_BINARY_FOLDER is set in .config, use that instead of "bin" as the bindir. That allows to set that config and easily run e.g. `./scripts/qemustart armvirt 32`. Signed-off-by: Andre Heider

Revert "ethtool: update to v5.14"

2021-10-23T19:39:00Z

This reverts commit 7630001427fa266fa61da0b2533e2c1054eababe Signed-off-by: Hans Dedecker

ethtool: update to v5.14

2021-10-23T19:35:38Z

Update to newly released version 5.14 Signed-off-by: Hans Dedecker

scripts/qemustart: use squashfs instead of ext4

2021-01-02T03:49:05Z

The qemustart script currently picks the ext4 filesystem rather than squashfs, while the latter is default for nearly all OpenWrt targets. Change the default behaviour of qemustart to be in line with the rest. Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren

scripts/qemustart: update malta to use MIPS64 R2 cpu

2020-10-11T14:16:24Z

Explicitly set the QEMU cpu type and support the MIPS R2 ISA, for both 64-bit and 32-bit targets. The later previously supported MIPS R2 by implicit default. This is needed after commit 93608697f3 ("malta: update MIPS64 ISA to R2"), otherwise booting malta images with scripts/qemustart will hang. Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar