[oe] VMware disk image type
Tom Rini
tom_rini at mentor.com
Mon Apr 4 14:46:14 UTC 2011
On 04/04/2011 04:21 AM, Mickael Chazaux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/2/23 Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>:
>> On 02/23/2011 05:48 AM, Mickael Chazaux wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I see there is a vmware.conf in conf/machine, but it does not generate
>>> vmdk (vmware virtual disk files) files. Here are the steps I take to
>>> do that:
>>>
>>> - create an empty file the size wanted (with dd),
>>> - format it to ext3 (mkfs.ext3 myfile)
>>> - mount it loopback (mount -o loop myfile /mnt)
>>> - untar the OE-generated rootfs in /mnt
>>> - create a /boot/extlinux.conf [1],
>>> - install extlinux in /boot (extlinux -i /mnt/boot)
>>> - umount,
>>> - convert to vmdk (using qemu-img -O vmdk myfile myfile.vmdk)
>>> - boot it in vmware.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to add a "vmdk" image to openembedded to do this
>>> automatically?
>>
>> Yes, patches would be welcome. This would reside in conf/bitbake.conf. See
>> the ubi/ubifs image examples for how to generate slightly complex images
>> like this. And I would recommend adding vmdk.ext[234] as the image names
>> (and supply at least one of them, someone else might step up and do the
>> regex for the others if you don't). Thanks!
>>
>
> The problem is the loopback mount, which requires root privileges, and
> is required by extlinux for its installation. Is there another method?
See classes/syslinux.bbclass for how we handle doing syslinux today.
Something similar should be doable for extlinux if you can't use syslinux.
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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