Re: [PATCH 0/7] vm-img improvements and fixes

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Using this in a layer i in fact had the need to bring my own template
for vmware to enable a nested virtualization. That worked as expected.

Henning

Am Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:11:40 +0200
schrieb Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>:

> The vm-img support we currently have is a bit broken in various
> aspects. Most prominently the resulting ova files are accepted by
> vmware only with warnings. And UEFI booting did not really work in
> virtualbox or vmware.
> 
> This series makes the template for the appliance a file one can
> override with a custom template. Which should allow close to any
> special configuration that the VMMs can express in their respective
> ovf dialects. It further makes changes to the templates we ship with
> isar to hopefully give people a decent baseline so they will not even
> need custom templates. And there is some code cleanup to the vm-img
> class.
> 
> 
> Henning Schild (7):
>   vm-img: move template out of package into SRC_URI file
>   vm-img: use two different ovf templates for vmware/virtualbox
>   vm-img: shorten code by using variables we have
>   vm-img: drop not used variables
>   vm-img: set vmware machine type to 64bit in our template
>   vm-img: make use of isars template class for most of the tmpl
>     variables
>   meta-isar: switch virtualbox test from buster to bullseye
> 
>  meta-isar/conf/local.conf.sample              |   2 +-
>  meta-isar/conf/machine/vmware.conf            |   2 +
>  ...a-buster.conf => virtualbox-bullseye.conf} |   2 +-
>  meta/classes/vm-img.bbclass                   |  35 ++---
>  .../vm-img/vm-img-virtualbox.ovf.tmpl}        | 132
> +++++++----------- meta/classes/vm-img/vm-img-vmware.ovf.tmpl    |
> 127 +++++++++++++++++ .../vm-template/vm-template_0.1.bb            |
>  16 --- scripts/ci_build.sh                           |   2 +-
>  8 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
>  rename meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/{virtualbox-ova-buster.conf =>
> virtualbox-bullseye.conf} (77%) rename
> meta/{recipes-devtools/vm-template/files/vm-template.ovf.tmpl =>
> classes/vm-img/vm-img-virtualbox.ovf.tmpl} (54%) create mode 100644
> meta/classes/vm-img/vm-img-vmware.ovf.tmpl delete mode 100644
> meta/recipes-devtools/vm-template/vm-template_0.1.bb
>