[oe] Building Distros Directly To HD (Was: Re: OE Booth during fosdem)

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia piątek, 16 lutego 2007, Roderick Taylor napisał:

> Using QEMU has helped me navigate the learning curve.
>
> The fiddly part is writing the filesystem to a QEMU virtual hard disk.
>  To do this I first boot qemu with a ploplinux iso image, start the
> network, fdisk, mkfs, wget the oe file system and extract files to the
> virtual disk.  Once I've got an intial OE image on there, I just use
> ipkg to upgrade and test any other software I need to stick on there.

Poky has scripts which make it VERY easy:

poky-qemu bzImage-qemux86.bin ANY-image-qemux86.rootfs.ext2

do ALL work ;)

http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/qemu/ is MUST read for using Qemu with OE.

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