Yocto Development Environment

VAR-SOM-MX6 - Setting Development Environment

Installing Ubuntu 14.04 in VMWare Player

There are many examples on the WEB. we Recommend:

• Setting up Ubuntu in VMWare
• VMware Player | How to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Installation recommendations

• Set the number of CPU's to maximum possible
• Set the memory size to at least 4GB.
• Set the disk size to be at least 200GB. 300GB is better.
• Use Bridge for networking.
• Install the VMWare tools.
• If you have an extra hard drive use it as a physical partition and set you home directory to it.

Installing additional packages for Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get install gawk autoconf automake libtool
sudo apt-get install bison flex patch
sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev
sudo apt-get install gettext texinfo curl subversion
sudo apt-get install minicom wireshark
sudo apt-get install qemu kvm qemu-kvm-extras qemu-kvm-extras-static
sudo apt-get install wireshark
sudo apt-get install ssh vde2 nfs-kernel-server debootstrap uml-utilities
sudo apt-get install bridge-utils dnsmasq xinetd tftpd tftp
sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage