Supported Image Types
Submitted by Anas Nashif, updated on 14 Nov 2009 - 0 comments
- Live Hybrid ISO Images
- The Live CD ISO images can be burned onto a USB stick with dd or it can be burned onto a DVD/CD. Users can also use QEMU to run it locally.
- Live USB Images
- Live USB images can be created in two different ways, interactive and non-interactive (default).
When running MIC2 in non-interactive mode, MIC2 creates a USB image file that can be copied directly onto a USB stick. The non-interactive mode can be used for daily builds or automated testing.
The interactive mode will write the images into USB disk directly. The mode will detect if a USB disk is available and detect and verify if a suitable partition is available. If two or more USB devices are present, you will be asked to select the target device. This method won't destroy the existing content of your USB stick, unless it finds no appropriate partition.
- Loop image
- This is the simplest image format available. Such images can be loop mounted and chrooted into, for example to build applications or for debugging purposes.
- KVM Image (raw image)
- KVM image can be used with QEMU or other VMM applications to launch Moblin as a virtualized instance.
- VMDK Image (VMWare)
- VMDK images can be loaded into Vmware or Vmware player. MIC2 also generates a vmx file that has image configuration and can be used to launch the image in Vmware by just clicking the file. If you have vmplayer, it should open automatically.
- Nand Image
- The nand image is specially for MID platforms such as Menlow and MooreStown. It includes two *.bin files, *-boot.bin is a boot image, *-sda.bin is a root file system image, but contains *-boot.bin inside of it.
- VirtualBox Image (.vdi)
- The VirtualBox image is to be on the virtual machine, VirtualBox.
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