images and containers must be licensed.

lilo is stagnating, it is better to prepare in advance for the fact
that it will not exist.

check conditions of  make  for equality of variables with an empty value
instead of check definition.
A defined but empty variable under all these conditions results errors.

Some images will now be better off with GRUB;
rework ve/.bare while at that (splitting the
image targets appropriately).

A classic brown paper bag bug: this was typed in a hospital
and that commit was a sick one indeed, the condition should
have been the opposite.
Reported-by: Ildar Mulyukov <ildar@altlinux.org>
Closes: #31982

...as it's x86-specific.

lib/*.mk aren't going to be parsed for build targets
in the near future; and the early placement of those
targets was superseded by a dedicated configuration
snippet directory so just move these bits there.

See http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/86239.html#1
for a query that has led to this one; in particular,
- xdm dropped (won't log in root and there are no users yet);
- network is brought up and configured via DHCP by default;
- apt-get works out-of-box;
- default image size is twice the chroot size.

After we have built a bare virtual machine image successfully
some variations are due, and these are to be described here.

Yes, mkimage-profiles is now able to build VM disk images.
So far the support is pretty basic:

- a single hard drive image with a single partition/FS
- only stock root password is configurable
- LILO is hardwired as a bootloader

The resulting images tend to boot under qemu/kvm though.

Please see doc/vm.txt for the warning regarding additional
privileges and setup required.  This was started back in
February but I still hoped to avoid sudo/privileged helper
(and libguestfs is almost as undistributable as can be)...

Thanks:

- http://blog.quinthar.com/2008/07/building-1gb-bootable-qemu-image-using.html
- Alexey Morarash who reworked that as https://github.com/tuxofil/linsygen
- led@, legion@, vitty@, aen@ for providing advice and inspiration