Question on building an OE image on a VM.

[Rich Pixley]

Wei Weng wrote:
> hi all.
>
> Is this do-able? (Build an OE image on a VM. the VM contains nothing
> but the OE image, it will boot like how OE boots, etc.)
More or less, yes.

Look at qemu.

The big problem with this approach is that embedded devices usually have 
value precisely because of their unique set of IO devices.  Qemu, 
vmware, etc, all provide a fine set of generic IO devices, which rarely 
match real world hardware IO devices sufficiently to actually "emulate" 
your real device under test.

If your sole interest is to see OE built, and to boot and run it, then 
yes, you should have little trouble and there are probably vanilla ports 
already available for some distributions.

--rich