-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04-04-11 13:21, Mickael Chazaux wrote: > 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?
If your user is in the 'disk' group it should also work. Narcissus runs as 'www-data' and generated OMAP SD images with loopmounts, adding 'www-data' to 'disks' fixed the weird problems we were seeing (vfat loop mounts worked, ext3 didn't0. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFNmc4iMkyGM64RGpERAuygAKCk1FXClMR8xQZU99Cu7d4ZIVsXhgCeP89h XQPhqxENu/aE+9LsE9g1R88= =J9PL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
