VIMAGE status

[Odhiambo ワシントン]

2009/5/6 Marko Zec <zec at freebsd.org>

> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 06:47:57 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Odhiambo ワシントン wrote:
> ...
> > > How do I use VIMAGE in 7.2-RELEASE? I'd like to play with the BIG boyz
> :)
> >
> > VImage code is in -current  (hence the -current mailing list)
> > so it is not in 7.2.
> >
> > HOWEVER you can pick up 7.2(ish) kernel sourcce tree which will allow
> > you to substitute in a 7.2 VIMAGE kernel and play with it..
> > I'll let Marko give you the details.
>
> Hi,
>
> you should throw a look at this page for more details:
>
> http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet
>
> More specifically, you should download this tarball:
>
> http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/vimage_7_20090505.tgz
>
> and then do the following:
>
> tpx32% cd src/sys/i386/conf/
> tpx32% config VIMAGE
> tpx32% cd ../compile/VIMAGE/
> tpx32% make depend; make
> tpx32% sudo make install
> tpx32% cd ~/tmp/src/usr.sbin/vimage/
> tpx32% make clean; make
> tpx32% sudo make install
>
> Good luck,
>
> Marko
>

Okay. I found something that looks like a problem but that could be me as
well.
I have a custom kernel config file named BEASTIE-7.x (I hope there is
nothing wrong with that naming as I have used it ever since FreeBSD 3.x).
Now after diff-ing the GENERIC with BEASTIE-7x, I decided to edit VIMAGE to
"include BEASTIE-7.x" instead of GENERIC.
Here is what happens:

FreeBSD-7# pwd
/usr/home/wash/VIMAGE/src/sys/i386/conf
FreeBSD-7# config VIMAGE
config: VIMAGE:8: syntax error

Alright, I wonder what is happening but line 8 has:

include      BEASTIE-7.x

So I decided to

cp BEASTIE-7.x BEASTIE

Then I edited line 8 to remove the "-7.x" and...

FreeBSD-7# config VIMAGE
Kernel build directory is ../compile/VIMAGE
Don't forget to do ``make cleandepend && make depend''

Now, again I looked further and I find that the problem actually is the ".x"
in the file name, because "include BEASTIE-7" does not give any error.

Maybe it's not a problem at all. It's not a big problem for me, but maybe
it's something known/unknown that can be fixed?

Sorry to bug you this early:)



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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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