[oe] New meta-xen layer

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Raymond Danks <ray.danks at se-eng.com> wrote:
> I have constructed a layer for the purpose of building Xen in OpenEmbedded.
>  Xen is a hypervisor and associated tools running on Linux available as a
> package in distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora.  It is also modified and
> included in the rpm-based Xen Cloud Platform distribution and Citrix
> XenServer.
>
> This layer currently includes recipes and recipe modifications for building
> xen, libvirt, and a minimal xen image that may be used for launching virtual
> machines via the xl command line interface.  This currently targets the x86
> Xen host (OE target) architecture; development has been done entirely on
> x86_64.
>
> I'm open to receiving feedback, patches and suggestions.  Also, I'm curious
> if this layer may be published to the OpenEmbedded layer index and by what
> process that should be achieved?

thanks for doing it and publishing it for community.
looks pretty good from very quick look at the content

 recipes-core/initscripts/ has .swp file committed.
NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS is probably not needed in recipes
use oe_runmake instead of ${MAKE}
in some recipes you cache ac_cv_* vars you could use
CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS variable to contain them all instead of putting
them into EXTRA_OECONF

One think I am not sure is of is distro/minimal.conf in there. I dont
know if you want to have your own distro or not if you do it would be
nice to separate that out that way other distros can also use this
layer if they want to.

As long as you maintain the layer in good shape and in alignment with
other layers you depend on its should be fine and please add the entry
into LayerIndex on wiki

>
> meta-xen|Xen related software||git://git.se-eng.com/meta-xen.git|
> http://git.se-eng.com/gitweb/?p=meta-xen.git;a=summary|
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
>
> Raymond Danks
> Sage Electronic Engineering, LLC
> http://www.se-eng.com
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