Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support for VirtualBox guest additions

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 8/3/15 3:35 PM, Juro Bystricky wrote:
> In order to support VirtualBox guest additions, kernel headers need to be present 
> in the VM. I am aware we already have two packages/recipes that are somewhat similar
> (kernel-devsrc.bb, linux-libc-headers), but none of them is suitable for this purpose.
> Besides the kernel headers, some additional files (scripts, Makefiles, .config, etc)
> are also required. 

linux-libc-headers is only for building applications.  kernel-devsrc is for
building modules on the target.

What do these specific modules need that are not present in kernel-devsrc?  (I
really don't want 'yet another' confusing package added to the system.)

> The new recipe "kernel-headers.bb" can in principle be used by other images as well.
> It is not limited to the Build Appliance and hence is not a part of the Build Appliance
> recipe.

I think kernel-headers is a bad name for a package.  It could be confusing.

--Mark

> Juro Bystricky (2):
>   kernel-headers: linux kernel headers
>   build-appliance-image: support for VirtualBox guest addtions
> 
>  .../README_vbox_guest_additions.txt                | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  .../images/build-appliance-image_12.0.1.bb         |  4 +-
>  meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-headers.bb        | 66 ++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image/README_vbox_guest_additions.txt
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-headers.bb
>