[yocto] hddimg vs hdddirect?

[K Richard Pixley]

What's the intended difference between hddimg and hdddirect?

I'm confused about the intent here. The data flow in previous releases,
even jethro, seems to be somewhat confused/broken so looking at the
source code isn't really helping here.

Is one intended to be a simple syslinux bootable image while the other
is a "live" image with multiple boot choices?

In master... How does one go about requesting either a vmdk of a live
image or a directly bootable vmdk?

--rich