Same as Chromium OS, openFyde adopts the Portage build and packaging system from Gentoo Linux. openFyde uses Portage with certain customisations to support building multiple targets (bootable OS system images) across different hardware architectures from a shared set of sources.
A board defines a target type, it can be either for a family of hardware devices or specifically for one type of device. For example, The board amd64-openfyde is a target type for an openFyde system image that aims to run on most recent PCs with amd64(x86_64) architecture; whilst the rpi4-openfyde board is a target type specifically for the infamous single-board computer Raspberry Pi 4B. We usually append -openfyde to the board name in openFyde to differentiate between its siblings for FydeOS.
Each board has a corresponding overlay that defines the configuration for it. This includes details like CPU architecture, kernel configuration, as well as additional packages and USE flags.
This repository is the overlay for the amd64-openfyde_vmware board, it's part of the openFyde open-source project.
This repository contains the following packages:
| Packages | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| app-emulation/open-vm-tools | package for vm tools | |
| chromeos-base/device-appid | Setup device appid | |
| media-libs | base libs for graphic | |
| kconfig | kernelconfig |
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This board is a openFyde version for vmware which is similar with amd64-vmware.
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For best use experience, suggest to use it on VMware Workstation for Windows.
Use create-ova script to convert chromium bin image to ova files. It does the following for you:
- Converting
chromiumos_test_image.binto vmdk format; - Resizing vmdk to 15G;
- Creating a temp vmx file;
- Creating ova file.
Before using this script, you must configure relevant tool path in the beginning of the script.