From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id A42CBE00AD8; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:58:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RDNS_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -5.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, high * trust * [63.239.67.10 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.8 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS X-Greylist: delayed 913 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at yocto-www; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:58:05 PDT Received: from emvm-gh1-uea09.nsa.gov (unknown [63.239.67.10]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16975E009D7 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:58:05 -0700 (PDT) X-TM-IMSS-Message-ID: <12ac13ef0000708a@nsa.gov> Received: from tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil ([144.51.242.1]) by nsa.gov ([10.208.42.194]) with ESMTP (TREND IMSS SMTP Service 7.1) id 12ac13ef0000708a ; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:46:55 -0400 Received: from moss-wolfpack.infosec.tycho.ncsc.mil (moss-wolfpack [192.168.25.76]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u2NDgmF6008224; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:42:49 -0400 To: "Olsson Rikard (RBSN/ESW1)" , "yocto@yoctoproject.org" References: From: "M. Gregory" Message-ID: <56F29CC0.3050006@tycho.nsa.gov> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:40:16 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: IMSS-7.1.0.1571-6.5.0.1024-16972.004 X-TM-AS-Result: No--3.275-7.0-31-10 X-imss-scan-details: No--3.275-7.0-31-10 X-TMASE-MatchedRID: QfHZjzml1E+YLyCLOSg+wya1MaKuob8Pt3aeg7g/usDkMnUVL5d0E6ZE Tt/s5jFSVqi2pSyuUC2qD8Jw4wYqMi0kxsNYPyneqxsSQa9fWKe4lBi4DSFJu1j/amLs8rQSEXF HklABLo5fLyNmlSKbmWRT/6s0+hMliwjsyrTVNP7Rc75iroKqAjpd9sHVoyNe3M5CjuZOAD6wB/ VzbIDhLEXyUzljLsTnL9KWhiY58nS7JfBr9Xl5ClCi/xDHcDzfFk73i4rVVIEaSBIWXJYAugX2Q VMzXe2Dqgmc6kFdwjAEVzfzIiIfQCBMJ1RBrW1At0/WB+Ci0gmDwbLcFKK91Lnzorj/H/KmMREz VEIBQtiY6WBRdABnbqiNWxjB4Og/oExRhpykho17RJjPJtVEc0m1osm7TNO4AqHi81z6t5M3utE FeFaYvr2ih/ikXHg6gt63HIVDFQ3yhUt3BI5jjXhja0aTlTuD Subject: Re: Question about XEN-hypervisor and Yocto build system X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:58:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/23/2016 08:46 AM, Olsson Rikard (RBSN/ESW1) wrote: > Hello Yocto Members, > > I am looking into xen-hypervisor and have downloaded the meta-virtualization layer and updated bblayers.conf to pull in the layer. However I am unsure how to proceed: > 1) How do I configure the meta-virtualization to use Xen hypervisor > 2) What target do I build/bb file do I build. > > I usually build either: > bitbake core-image-minimal ==> Standard Linux for our HW board > bitbake core-image-XXX--XXX ==> Standard Linux for our HW board + additional application layers. > > I am however unable to understand the connection between the images I currently build and the Xen-hypervisor, for example: > recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.2.19.bb:# xen-minimal config > recipes-extended/images/kvm-image-minimal.bb:DESCRIPTION = "A minimal kvm image" > recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb:DESCRIPTION = "A minimal xen image" > What are above bitbake recipes, should I build xen-image-minimal.bb instead of core-image-minimal or.... > > I have looked at: > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_with_KVM > and the two README files: > ./docs/00-README > ./README > but there is not much information on Yocto and xen-hypervisor so I am unsure how to setup the build system. > > Appreciate any advice or input. > > Best regards > Rikard Olsson > You should send your meta-virtualization questions to meta-virtualization@yoctoproject.org. The xen-image-minimal will build an image with the Xen hypervisor. You need to include xen in your DISTRO_FEATURES to ensure all other required components are built. -- Machon Gregory