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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.8pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> Please note, this is going out to 3 lists in an attempt to
insure that no one who would be impacted by this change misses it. Implied spam apology included.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.8pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> The Yocto Project currently provides a virtual machine image
called the Build Appliance (<a href="https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-2.2/build-appliance/"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-2.2/build-appliance/</span></a>).
This image can be run using either VirtualBox or VMware. It enables you to
build and boot a custom embedded Linux image with the Yocto Project on a
non-Linux development system. It is not
intended for day to day development use, but instead, is intended to allow
users to “try out” the tools even if they do not have access to a Linux system.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.8pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> We are considering
replacing the VM based Build Appliance with a set of containers (<a href="https://hub.docker.com/r/crops/poky/"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">https://hub.docker.com/r/crops/poky/</span></a>,
or if you want a user interface (<a href="https://hub.docker.com/r/crops/toaster-master/"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">https://hub.docker.com/r/crops/toaster-master/</span></a>
). These containers currently provide
most of the functionality of the Build Appliance and should shortly be at
feature parity with the Build Appliance.
We are actively adding to and supporting the containers as some of our
developers are using them in their day to day development in order to benefit
from the host isolation and ease with which other distributions can be
tested. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.8pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> This is an RFC to see what features in the Build Appliance are
important to you but would not be provided by the container solutions. If the community would be just as content
using the container approach as using the VM based Build Appliance image, then
we’d be better off deprecating the Build Appliance and applying those resources
elsewhere. If there are important
features the Build Appliance provides which the container solution does not, or cannot provide, we’d love to hear
what they are! <span></span></span></p>
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Thanks in advance for any feedback,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.8pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">-Brian<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">an Intel Employee<span></span></p>
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