Question on building an OE image on a VM.

[Wei Weng]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Rich Pixley <rich.pixley at palm.com> wrote:
> 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
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Rich:

Yes, that is precisely what I want to do. :)  (Build OE, boot and get it to hum)

Is there a guide I can look into how this is done?

Thanks
Wei