From: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/1] [RFC] enhance boot-directdisk.bbclass to generate .vmdk image
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:53:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1326221405.git.dexuan.cui@intel.com> (raw)
[RFC][PATCH] enhance boot-directdisk.bbclass to generate .vmdk image
The self-hosted-image work needs a live-bootable and r/w-able image format. The existing .iso isn't ok since it's readonly.
The existing .hddimg is not a good choice, since it has a two-option(boot,install) syslinux function that we don't need: we don't hope a user be potentially able to "install", and I think it may be not suitble to hack build_hddimg to hide the "install"? Moreever, .hddimg is not that compatibible with some devices and we hope to have the most compatibility.
So I think the .hdddirect format is a good choice and I made this patch to adopt it and also enhanced boot-directdisk.bbclass to generate .vmdk image so we can run it on vmware, too.
BTW, currently self-hosted-image is the only user of boot-directdisk.bbclass; with the adoption of .hdddirect and .vmdk formats, a user can still use "IMAGE_FSTYPES += 'live'" to generate the .iso and .hddimg format.
Please give comment. Thanks!
Please review the following changes for suitability for inclusion. If you have
any objections or suggestions for improvement, please respond to the patches. If
you agree with the changes, please provide your Acked-by.
The following changes since commit 468998cddbe1a803096c9b357e1b5daa3b7e8c2e:
command.py: add parseConfigurationFiles API (2012-01-06 16:01:44 +0000)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib dcui/self-hosted-v7
http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=dcui/self-hosted-v7
Dexuan Cui (1):
self-hosted-image: generate the .hdddirect and .vmdk image files
meta/classes/boot-directdisk.bbclass | 10 +++++++++-
meta/recipes-core/images/self-hosted-image.bb | 11 +++++++++--
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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1.7.6
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-10 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 18:53 Dexuan Cui [this message]
2012-01-10 18:53 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] self-hosted-image: generate the .hdddirect and .vmdk image files Dexuan Cui
2012-01-12 16:31 ` Darren Hart
2012-01-17 9:35 ` Cui, Dexuan
2012-01-17 15:18 ` Darren Hart
2012-01-18 14:17 ` Cui, Dexuan
2012-01-12 19:00 ` Darren Hart
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