add ARMEL support

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Binary package hint: python-vm-builder

I would like to use vm-builder to generate images for my ARM development. For that I need to generate images for 'armel' architecture which is part of ports.ubuntu.com.

In https://code.launchpad.net/~hrw/ubuntu/lucid/vm-builder/armel-support tree I have first working version which generates armel root filesystem on my x86-64 machine. Revisions 33-36 needs review, 37-38 are hacks to make something working to share with other users.

I added 'qemu' hypervisor but I think that it can be merged into 'kvm' one when I will add mapping of arch<>qemu/kvm binary.

Todo:

- add map of qemu-system-ARCH <> arch mapping (qemu-system-arm for armel, qemu-system-x86-64 for amd64 etc)
- fix kernel installation

I am using that code on fresh Lucid and code changes were done to HEAD of bzr tree (rev 32).

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

Do not merge that branch - I got nicer implementation but need to test it before releasing

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Hey Marcin,

vm-builder 0.12.4 revives QEMU support, see bottom of vm-builder/VMBuilder/plugins/kvm/vm.py:
class QEMu(KVM):
    name = 'QEMu'
    arg = 'qemu'

    def libvirt_domain_type_name(self):
        return 'qemu'

register_hypervisor(KVM)
register_hypervisor(QEMu)

Might be a good time to consider rebasing your patches

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

NB: vm-builder code wasn't pushed for the new release to lp:vm-builder as of today, I poked Soren to bzr push.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Sorry, I was believing my trunk checkout to be the trunk of vmbuilder, but lp:vmbuilder points at the 0.12 branch which has the latest release.