Bug 1557

Summary: Build Appliance: Pre-configured VM Build image built by Yocto
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Meta-yocto Reporter: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Component: meta-yoctoAssignee: Saul Wold <sgw>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Low CC: david.c.stewart, dexuan.cui, edwin.zhai, jessica.zhang, ke.yu, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, shane.wang
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.2 M2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: (P1) for 2 people
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Richard Purdie 2011-10-03 06:45:22 UTC 
The intended use is to enable developers to very easily "Check it out" and do a Yocto Project build with minimal pain. 

This should allow the user to run a Yocto build and contain the required sources to do so, thereby removing network accesses as a barrier to entry.

The image should also be capable of booting an X desktop which would simply contain HOB and offer a terminal or an app to deploy resulting images to media or to boot the built images in QEMU.

Some notes are on https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Build_Appliance_Design
Comment 1 Dave Stewart 2011-10-06 12:03:14 UTC 
By the way, anything more than 700M is probably too big to download in one chunk