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!
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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