Bug 4172

Summary:	Virtualized development environment for Bitbake Commander (Build Appliance Mini)
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Runtime	Reporter:	Cristian Iorga <cristian.iorga>
Component:	build-appliance	Assignee:	Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mihail Stanciu <stanciux.mihail>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium+	CC:	alexandru.c.georgescu, jessica.zhang, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.9
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Cristian Iorga 2013-04-02 14:45:03 UTC

Add a new target that will consist of a cut-down Build Appliance.
The objective is to have a virtualized development environment to use it with the Eclipse Bitbake Commander feature/component.

Build Appliance Mini will consist of:

1. A Linux virtual machine to be run under VMware Player.
2. The entire development environment needed by poky/bitbake
3. ssh/scp access

This is a basically a stripped down Build Appliance, without pre-installed poky repo and without Hob. Of course, X11 stack is also not needed.

This will decrease the size and requirements of the virtual machine, all while increasing the performance of the YP development environment (bitbake + poky).

Comment 1 Cristian Iorga 2013-04-02 14:47:20 UTC

This is just an improved version of how BA is used now in order to be able to develop custom embedded Linux distros/apps entirely on Windows using Eclipse ADT.

Comment 2 Saul Wold 2013-04-24 14:49:33 UTC

Regular BA meets the needs of the Windows  eclipse  ADT, so this is not a priority.

Comment 3 Cristian Iorga 2014-06-26 09:05:30 UTC

The virtualization solution has been switched to QEMU.
The initial implementation will run under Mac OS X.

Comment 4 Cristian Iorga 2014-06-26 09:06:45 UTC

During the initial phase a minimal Linux virtual machine with a poky build system contained within the VM will be implemented.

Comment 5 Cristian Iorga 2014-07-29 08:58:07 UTC

Implementation in progress.

Comment 6 Cristian Iorga 2015-02-12 15:29:39 UTC

Starting point:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ciorga/YB4172

Comment 7 Juro Bystricky 2015-10-01 14:09:37 UTC

Version controlled the works in:
https://github.com/otcshare/meta-yocto-vm-experiments

Put on hold for the time being, as there are better alternatives 
being developed/implemented at this time.

Comment 8 Alexandru Georgescu 2015-10-26 06:15:50 UTC

Verified as per Juro's comments.