Moblin Image Creator

Moblin Image Creator (MIC) is a tool aimed at making life easier for the mobile and embedded developer. The tool is designed to be extremely flexible with platform-specific knowledge isolated to a platform definition. Initial focus is on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), as well as a new class of devices, known as Netbooks and Nettops.

There are three fundamental features that Moblin Image Creator provides:

• creating a platform-specific build-environment, or "project"
• creating a platform-specific target file-system
• providing user selectable "feature sets" (or fsets) to install bundles of packages that provide some high-level functionality

For more details on projects, targets, fsets, and images, click here.

In addition, there are many other smaller features to simplify your work, such as:

• the choice of a fully functional graphical user interface (GUI) or a purely command line interface
• wrappers for chrooting into a buildroot or target file-system (such as, bind mounting important system directories and copying over network configuration files)
• wrappers for opening Xephyr/KVM windows for testing target file-systems
• utilities for creating live USB images of target file-systems, for easy testing of multiple target file-systems