Moblin Image Creator
Submitted by prajwal, updated on 23 Feb 2009
This project has been deprecated. The information is still valid for Moblin v1 images. For Moblin v2, please see Moblin Image Creator 2
Moblin Image Creator (MIC) is a tool aimed at making life easier for the mobile and embedded developer. The tool is designed to be extremely flexible with platform-specific knowledge isolated to a platform definition. Initial focus is on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), as well as a new class of devices, known as Netbooks and Nettops.
There are three fundamental features that Moblin Image Creator provides:
- creating a platform-specific build-environment, or "project"
- creating a platform-specific target file-system
- providing user selectable "feature sets" (or fsets) to install bundles of packages that provide some high-level functionality
For more details on projects, targets, fsets, and images, click here.
In addition, there are many other smaller features to simplify your work, such as:
- the choice of a fully functional graphical user interface (GUI) or a purely command line interface
- wrappers for chrooting into a buildroot or target file-system (such as, bind mounting important system directories and copying over network configuration files)
- wrappers for opening Xephyr/KVM windows for testing target file-systems
- utilities for creating live USB images of target file-systems, for easy testing of multiple target file-systems
