Updated image_to_vmware.sh to generate an VMware configuration file. This is useful for VMplayer.

src/scripts/image_to_vmware.sh

Index: src/scripts/image_to_vmware.sh
diff --git a/src/scripts/image_to_vmware.sh b/src/scripts/image_to_vmware.sh
index 730aea7d99d328382e000b9e2d6781c842d9adc3..dd184ec28a9cf2d3a841fa91afa89e1e746c1464 100755
--- a/src/scripts/image_to_vmware.sh
+++ b/src/scripts/image_to_vmware.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
-# Script to convert the output of build_image.sh to a VMware image.
+# Script to convert the output of build_image.sh to a VMware image and write a
+# corresponding VMware config file.
 
 # Load common constants.  This should be the first executable line.
 # The path to common.sh should be relative to your script's location.
@@ -13,13 +14,25 @@
 IMAGES_DIR="${DEFAULT_BUILD_ROOT}/images"
 # Default to the most recent image
 DEFAULT_FROM="${IMAGES_DIR}/`ls -t $IMAGES_DIR | head -1`"
-DEFAULT_TO="${DEFAULT_FROM}/ide.vmdk"
+DEFAULT_TO="${DEFAULT_FROM}"
+DEFAULT_VMDK="ide.vmdk"
+DEFAULT_VMX="chromeos.vmx"
+# Memory units are in MBs
+DEFAULT_MEM="1024"
 
 # Flags
 DEFINE_string from "$DEFAULT_FROM" \
   "Directory containing rootfs.image and mbr.image"
 DEFINE_string to "$DEFAULT_TO" \
-  "Destination file for VMware image"
+  "Destination folder for VMware files"
+DEFINE_boolean make_vmx true \
+  "Create a vmx file for use with vmplayer."
+DEFINE_string vmdk "$DEFAULT_VMDK" \
+  "Filename for the vmware disk image"
+DEFINE_string vmx "$DEFAULT_VMX" \
+  "Filename for the vmware config"
+DEFINE_integer mem "$DEFAULT_MEM" \
+  "Memory size for the vmware config in MBs."
 
 # Parse command line
 FLAGS "$@" || exit 1
@@ -46,9 +59,35 @@ mkfs.ext3 -F -L C-STATE "${FLAGS_from}/state.image"
 qemu-img convert -f raw \
   "${FLAGS_from}/mbr.image" "${FLAGS_from}/state.image" \
   "${FLAGS_from}/empty.image" "${FLAGS_from}/rootfs.image" \
-  -O vmdk "${FLAGS_to}"
+  -O vmdk "${FLAGS_to}/${FLAGS_vmdk}"
 
 rm -f "${FLAGS_from}/empty.image" "${FLAGS_from}/state.image"
 
-echo "Done. Created VMware image ${FLAGS_to}"
+echo "Created VMware image ${FLAGS_to}"
+
+# Generate the vmware config file
+# A good reference doc: http://www.sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
+VMX_CONFIG=$(cat <<END
+#!/usr/bin/vmware
+.encoding = "UTF-8"
+config.version = "8"
+virtualHW.version = "4"
+memsize = "${FLAGS_mem}"
+ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
+ide0:0.fileName = "${FLAGS_vmdk}"
+ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
+usb.present = "TRUE"
+sound.present = "TRUE"
+sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
+displayName = "ChromeOS"
+guestOS = "otherlinux"
+ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
+floppy0.present = "FALSE"
+END)
+
+if [[ ${FLAGS_make_vmx} ]]; then
+  echo "${VMX_CONFIG}" > "${FLAGS_to}/${FLAGS_vmx}"
+  echo "Wrote the following config to: ${FLAGS_to}/${FLAGS_vmx}"
+  echo "${VMX_CONFIG}"
+fi