[yocto] image-vmdk with genericx86

[Maxin B. John]

Hi Takashi-san,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:51:34AM +0000, Takashi Matsuzawa wrote:
>Hello, Yocto.
>
>Should it be possible to simply change image class of genericx86 from xxxx.hddimg to xxxx.hdddirect?
>
>I have been successfully building genericx86 image (that is image-live.bbclass based), and now trying to build it with directdisk (xxxx.hdddirect).
>
>I thought it would be simpler to use pre-existing imageclass, so I tried following after finding image-vmdk.bbclass inherits boot-directdisk.
>
>Currently my build is based on Yocto 1.8 (fido).
>
>
>(in my local.conf)
>
>IMAGE_FSTYPES_remove = " live"
>IMAGE_FSTYPES_append = " vmdk"

Instead of the above two, could you use the following line in local.conf and build again ?

IMAGE_FSTYPES += "vmdk"

>But this caused following error.
>
>I am currently looking into the class files to find the cause of error, but anyway, this should work?
>
>
>>ERROR: No IMAGE_CMD defined for IMAGE_FSTYPES entry 'vmdk' - possibly invalid type name or missing support class
>> ERROR: Function failed: do_rootfs
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>>/mnt/ssd2/yocto/dev/tmp/x86-wk3/work/genericx86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal-initramfs/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.20432
>> ERROR: Task 229
>>(/mnt/ssd2/yocto/dev/wk/x86/wk3/build-root/sources/poky/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb, do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'


Best Regards,
Maxin