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).
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.
Regular BA meets the needs of the Windows eclipse ADT, so this is not a priority.
The virtualization solution has been switched to QEMU. The initial implementation will run under Mac OS X.
During the initial phase a minimal Linux virtual machine with a poky build system contained within the VM will be implemented.
Implementation in progress.
Starting point: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ciorga/YB4172
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.
Verified as per Juro's comments.