Re: live image types and qemu machines

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/14/2012 08:09 AM, Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The current Hob allows you to build images for a qemu machine selecting
> 'live' as your image type. To me (with my pitiful knowledge) this doesn't
> make much sense: would I want to deploy an image built for a
> virtualisation environment in a real piece of hardware?
> 
> So here goes a question: should we allow Hob users, who are mainly people
> new to the Yocto project, to select the 'live' image type when building
> images for qemu machines?
> 

In my opinion: YES. The reason is that this allows you to test the live
image format and the boot mechanism on virtualized hardware. This is a
valuable development tool.

--
Darren

> This might sound like a silly question, but it has a pretty big impact on
> the Settings dialog and on the number of variations we need to create for
> our 'Image details' screen, which appears after the build finishes and
> displays logical next steps (like run the image or deploy your image to
> external storage).
> 
> Any help with this would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Belen
> 
> 
> 
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Darren Hart
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