From: Ulf Samuelsson <ulf@atmel.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] targetting buildroot at vmware
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:56:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <010e01c71de9$943efd50$0f31b10a@atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20061212085344.GA5002@aon.at
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:45:36PM -0800, Joe Pruett wrote:
>>i haven't found any obvious hits on the web yet, but it seems like this
>>shouldn't be too hard. i want to make a very small vmware image using
>>buildroot. has anyone else done this and have suggestions? i figure i'll
>>just start with defaults for 386 and see where i get...
>
> There is no difference whether you build a rootfs for real hardware or
> for any simulator, be it vmware, bochs, plex86, qemu, you-name-it). Just
> build your rootfs, install a bootloader into an empty "disk" (you'd
> normally use a file for this) and put your rootfs into a partition on
> your "disk". Boot and enjoy.
I think he wants to create a complete disk for VMware,
and I believe that is it not possible.
Once a complete disk is available, the file system created in
VMware can be copied to the disk.
Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 5:45 [Buildroot] targetting buildroot at vmware Joe Pruett
2006-12-12 8:53 ` Bernhard Fischer
2006-12-12 11:56 ` Ulf Samuelsson [this message]
2006-12-12 13:00 ` Bernhard Fischer
2006-12-12 17:13 ` Joe Pruett
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