Using OpenEmbedded for a virtual environment

Using OpenEmbedded for a virtual environment

[Peter Chubb]

Hi,
   We're trying to use OE to build a hypervisor, a paravirtualised
   kernel, and a couple of root file systems.  I'm looking for any
   best-practice examples of how to set it up for this kind of
   purpose.  Has anyone done this kind of thing?

Peter C

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Re: Using OpenEmbedded for a virtual environment

[Roman I Khimov]

В сообщении от Среда 11 ноября 2009 22:53:25 автор Peter Chubb написал:
>    We're trying to use OE to build a hypervisor, a paravirtualised
>    kernel, and a couple of root file systems.  I'm looking for any
>    best-practice examples of how to set it up for this kind of
>    purpose.  Has anyone done this kind of thing?

What exactly is a problem? We've done this in different kinds of settings. 
Generally, it's very easy to do multiple images (separate tasks with lists of 
all you need for those images, one "container" image for other images if 
needed, interdependcies via do_rootfs (there was patch do it via DEPENDS, but 
it got reverted)), multikernel (for example, if you want to have one Linux 
kernel controling real hardware and another one fully virtualized) build 
doesn't work out of the box AFAIK, but can be fixed. Building hypervisor or 
microkernel is also not hard, you just need to add proper dependencies to your 
kernels and configure bootloader appropriately.

Using OpenEmbedded for a virtual environment

[Peter Chubb]

Hi,
   We're trying to use OE to build a hypervisor, a paravirtualised
   kernel, and a couple of root file systems.  I'm looking for any
   best-practice examples of how to set it up for this kind of
   purpose.  Has anyone done this kind of thing?

Peter C

--
Dr Peter Chubb		www.nicta.com.au    peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au           ERTOS within National ICT Australia