On 06/14/2012 08:09 AM, Barros Pena, Belen wrote: > Hi all, > > The current Hob allows you to build images for a qemu machine selecting > 'live' as your image type. To me (with my pitiful knowledge) this doesn't > make much sense: would I want to deploy an image built for a > virtualisation environment in a real piece of hardware? > > So here goes a question: should we allow Hob users, who are mainly people > new to the Yocto project, to select the 'live' image type when building > images for qemu machines? >
In my opinion: YES. The reason is that this allows you to test the live image format and the boot mechanism on virtualized hardware. This is a valuable development tool. -- Darren > This might sound like a silly question, but it has a pretty big impact on > the Settings dialog and on the number of variations we need to create for > our 'Image details' screen, which appears after the build finishes and > displays logical next steps (like run the image or deploy your image to > external storage). > > Any help with this would be much appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Belen > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Intel Corporation (UK) Limited > Registered No. 1134945 (England) > Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ > VAT No: 860 2173 47 > > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution > by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto