[OE-core] [PATCH] image: Convert vmdk/vdi/qcow2 to strict CONVERSION_CMD types

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 04:08:40PM +0000, Wold, Saul wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 15:58 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > The vmdk/vdi/qcow2 IMAGE_FSTYPEs predate wic.  As such, they provide
> > some similar underlying functionality in order to produce a "disk"
> > image
> > that in turn can be converted into different formats that various
> > hypervisor types work with.  They do not however provide the ability
> > for
> > other disk image types to be converted into these same output types.
> > Furthermore, they are less flexible than what wic does provide.  This
> > drops the old style vmdk/vdi/qcow2 types and re-introduces them under
> > the CONVERSION_CMD framework.  The equivalent of vmdk is now wic.vmdk
> > and so forth for the other types.
> > 
> I like this also!  Strong work!
> 
> Would this allow us to further collapse the live-vm-common.bbclass back
> to just image-live.bbclass.  I know that the magic mapping that happens
> in set_live_vm_vars() has caused confusion in the past and removing
> that mapping would be pretty awesome.

Yes, with this there is only one user of live-vm-common.bbclass, so it
could be folded back.

-- 
Tom
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