Building a target image

Poky provides several predesigned image recipes that we can use to build our own binary image. We can check the list of available images running the following command from the poky directory:

$: ls meta*/recipes*/images/*.bb

All the recipes provide images which are, in essence, a set of unpacked and configured packages, generating a filesystem that we can use on an actual hardware.

Next, we can see a short description of available images, as follows:

• build-appliance-image: This is a virtual machine image which can be run by either VMware Player or VMware Workstation that allows to run builds.

• core-image-full-cmdline: This is a console-only image with full support for the target device hardware.

• core-image-minimal: This is a small image allowing a device to boot, and it is very useful for kernel and boot loader tests and development.

• core-image-minimal-dev: This image includes all contents of the core-image-minimal image and adds headers and libraries that we can use...