Tag Archives: OE

Using OE to build an XT ‘Service VM’

UPDATE: I’ve deleted the build scripts git repo mentioned in this post and rolled all of my OE project build scripts into one repo. Find it here: git://github.com/flihp/oe-build-scripts.git Over the past few weeks I’ve run into a few misconceptions about XenClient XT and OpenEmbedded. First is that XT is some sort of magical system that [...]

Measured Launch on OE core

It’s been 4 months since my last post but I’ve been working on some fun stuff. Said work has progressed to the point where it’s actually worth talking about publically so I’m crawling out from under my favorite rock and putting it “out there”. My last few bits of writing were about some random OpenEmbedded [...]

Openembedded Yocto Native Hello World: Take 2

A while back I wrote about some problems I was having with native OpenEmbedded recipes that were building packages with raw Makefiles (no autotools). I wrote up the problem and the work around I was using here. I got some feedback pointing out what I was doing wrong but I guess my brain just didn’t [...]

openembedded yocto native hello world

NOTE: I took the time to get to the bottom of the issue discussed in this post. There’s a new post here that explains the “right way” to use Makefiles with yocto. As always, the error in this post was mine I’ve officially “drank the Kool-Aid” and I’m convinced openembedde and Yocto are pretty awesome. [...]

OE-Core Yocto gcc timeout

I’ve been thrashing around trying to get the upstream OE to build an image for me. Today I finally made a concerted effort over a few hours to dive deep and do this right. It turns out I was using the “old” OE repos when I should have been using the “new” build system from [...]