meta-virtualization

This layer provides support for building Xen, KVM, Libvirt, and associated packages necessary for constructing OE-based virtualized solutions.

The bbappend files for some recipes (e.g. linux-yocto) in this layer need to have 'virtualization' in DISTRO_FEATURES to have effect. To enable them, add in configuration file the following line.

DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " virtualization"

If meta-virtualization is included, but virtualization is not enabled as a distro feature a warning is printed at parse time:

You have included the meta-virtualization layer, but
'virtualization' has not been enabled in your DISTRO_FEATURES. Some bbappend files
may not take effect. See the meta-virtualization README for details on enabling
virtualization support.

If you know what you are doing, this warning can be disabled by setting the following variable in your configuration:

SKIP_META_VIRT_SANITY_CHECK = 1

Depending on your use case, there are other distro features in meta-virtualization that may also be enabled:

• xen: enables xen functionality in various packages (kernel, libvirt, etc)
• kvm: enables KVM configurations in the kernel and autoloads modules
• aufs: enables aufs support in docker and linux-yocto
• x11: enable xen and libvirt functionality related to x11
• selinux: enables functionality in libvirt and lxc
• systemd: enable systemd services and unit files (for recipes for support)
• sysvinit: enable sysvinit scripts (for recipes with support)

Dependencies

This layer depends on:

URI: git://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core.git branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default

URI: git://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded.git branch: master revision: HEAD layers: meta-oe meta-networking meta-filesystems meta-python

BBFILE_PRIORITY_openembedded-layer = "4"

Required for Xen XSM policy: URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-selinux branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default

Maintenance

Send pull requests, patches, comments or questions to meta-virtualization@yoctoproject.org

Maintainer: Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfield@gmail.com

When sending single patches, please using something like: $ git send-email -1 -M --to meta-virtualization@yoctoproject.org --subject-prefix='meta-virtualization][PATCH'

License

All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code included in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in each recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated.