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From: Tino Breddin <tb@travelping.com>
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Hi there,

I've seen some work already went into building a Yocto build appliance
which runs on VMware [1]. I think that's a great tool to get started.
Has the appliance been built by hand or is the process somewhat
automated? I couldn't find any references in Poky.

Cheers,
Tino

[1] https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/build-appliance-manual