From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:56:14 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] targetting buildroot at vmware References: <20061212085344.GA5002@aon.at> Message-ID: <010e01c71de9$943efd50$0f31b10a@atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net > 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