The meta-virtualization layer is the authoritative resource for virtualization technologies in OpenEmbedded / Yocto built distributions. It provides support or both hypervisor-based virtualization (such as KVM, Xen, and QEMU) and system-level virtualization (Linux containers), along with the host and guest technologies required to build complete solutions ranging from embedded systems to full deep CNCF stack deployments.
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"
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
- k8s: enables kubernetes configurations in the kernel, tools and configuration
- 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)
- seccomp: enable seccomp support for packages that have the capability.
- vcontainer: enables vdkr/vpdmn virtual container runtime support, including kernel config fragments (9p, squashfs, overlayfs) and busybox utilities (base64, hexdump) required for container cross-install during image builds.
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
Required for Xen XSM policy: URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-selinux branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default
Required for Ceph: URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-cloud-services branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default
Required for cri-o: URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-selinux branch: master revision: HEAD prio: default
Repository: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-virtualization/ Mailing list: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/meta-virtualization IRC: libera.chat #meta-virt channel
Send pull requests, patches, comments or questions to meta-virtualization@lists.yoctoproject.org
Maintainer: Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfield@gmail.com see MAINTAINERS for more specific information
When sending single patches, please using something like: $ git send-email -1 -M --to meta-virtualization@lists.yoctoproject.org --subject-prefix='meta-virtualization][PATCH'
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