[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/1] [RFC] enhance boot-directdisk.bbclass to generate .vmdk image

[Dexuan Cui]

[RFC][PATCH] enhance boot-directdisk.bbclass to generate .vmdk image

The self-hosted-image work needs a live-bootable and r/w-able image format. The existing .iso isn't ok since it's readonly.
The existing .hddimg is not a good choice, since it has a two-option(boot,install) syslinux function that we don't need: we don't hope a user be potentially able to "install", and I think it may be not suitble to hack build_hddimg to hide the "install"? Moreever, .hddimg is not that compatibible with some devices and we hope to have the most compatibility.

So I think the .hdddirect format is a good choice and I made this patch to adopt it and also enhanced boot-directdisk.bbclass to generate .vmdk image so we can run it on vmware, too.
BTW, currently self-hosted-image is the only user of boot-directdisk.bbclass; with the adoption of .hdddirect and .vmdk formats, a user can still use "IMAGE_FSTYPES += 'live'" to generate the .iso and .hddimg format.

Please give comment. Thanks!

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The following changes since commit 468998cddbe1a803096c9b357e1b5daa3b7e8c2e:

  command.py: add parseConfigurationFiles API (2012-01-06 16:01:44 +0000)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib dcui/self-hosted-v7
  http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=dcui/self-hosted-v7

Dexuan Cui (1):
  self-hosted-image: generate the .hdddirect and .vmdk image files

 meta/classes/boot-directdisk.bbclass          |   10 +++++++++-
 meta/recipes-core/images/self-hosted-image.bb |   11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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