Hi, 2011/2/23 Tom Rini <[email protected]>: > 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? Regards, Mickael Chazaux _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
