Bug 1557 - Build Appliance: Pre-configured VM Build image built by Yocto
Summary: Build Appliance: Pre-configured VM Build image built by Yocto
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Meta-yocto
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: meta-yocto (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Low enhancement
Target Milestone: 1.2 M2
Assignee: Saul Wold
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Reported: 2011-10-03 06:45 UTC by Richard Purdie
Modified: 2012-05-01 17:05 UTC (History)
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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