[OE-core] [PATCH] build-appliance-image: Support for VirtualBox guest additions

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Mon Apr 11 13:28:08 UTC 2016


On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky at intel.com> wrote:
> Add support for VirtualBox guest additions.
> The additions are built inside the Build Appliance VM.
> For this to be possible, the environment for out-of-tree kernel module builds
> must be present and set up properly.
> A README file with detailed steps on how to build the guest additions is placed
> in the home directory of the user "builder" as well.
> The main purpose of the guest additions is to allow sharing folders between
> the host and Build Appliance VM.
>
> [YOCTO #8073]
>
> Signed-off-by: Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky at intel.com>

We have guestadditions (without X driver) supported on meta-oe, why
not included this here and avoid all this manual work from the end
user?

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