[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 2/5] board/guest: documentation and sample files

Francois Perrad fperrad at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 15:56:29 UTC 2020


Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org>
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 board/guest/Dockerfile |  3 +++
 board/guest/readme.txt | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 board/guest/Dockerfile
 create mode 100644 board/guest/readme.txt

diff --git a/board/guest/Dockerfile b/board/guest/Dockerfile
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+FROM scratch
+ADD rootfs.tar /
+CMD ["/bin/ash"]
diff --git a/board/guest/readme.txt b/board/guest/readme.txt
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+Container - Guest
+
+Intro
+=====
+
+Buildroot supports some OS-level virtualization tools: Docker, LXC, systemd-nspawn.
+These tools are built on an host image.
+
+A container could be created from a rootfs (guest image) built by Buildroot with a guest_*_defconfig
+
+The following defconfig are available:
+    - guest_arm_a7_defconfig
+    - guest_arm_a9_defconfig
+    - guest_x86_64_defconfig
+
+The artifact produced by these defconfig is the file output/images/rootfs.tar.
+The guest has no bootloader, no kernel, no init system.
+
+How to with Docker
+==================
+
+A Docker image could created with a Dockerfile and few commands are needed:
+
+    # dockerd &
+
+    $ cat Dockerfile
+    FROM scratch
+    ADD rootfs.tar /
+    CMD ["/bin/ash"]
+    $ docker build --tag br:guest .
+    $ docker images
+    REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
+    br                  guest               0c54c85a3452        42 seconds ago      1.75MB
+
+The Docker image could be exported and imported with the commands `docker save` and `docker load`.
+
+And the Docker image could be launched:
+
+    $ docker run -it br:guest
+        / # ls -l /bin/sh
+        lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             7 Mar 11 15:46 /bin/sh -> busybox
+        / # exit
+
+How to with systemd-nspawn
+==========================
+
+Extract rootfs.tar in a directory container.
+
+    # systemd-nspawn -D container
+        # ls -l /bin/sh
+        lrwxrwxrwx    1 1002     1002             7 Mar 11 15:46 /bin/sh -> busybox
+        # exit
+
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2.17.1




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