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.
• Update Ubuntu right after first login.

Installing additional packages for Ubuntu 14.04

First time you login into Ubuntu Install additional pacakages

Yocto essentials pacakages:
$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev xterm

Yocto Documentation:
$ sudo apt-get install make xsltproc docbook-utils fop dblatex xmlto

ADT Installer Extras:
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool libglib2.0-dev libarchive-dev

Additional :
$ sudo apt-get install bison flex patch libncurses-dev
$ sudo apt-get install gettext texinfo curl subversion
$ sudo apt-get install minicom 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 u-boot-tools

Pre Built Ubuntu 14.04 VMWare virtual machine

We created a Virtual machine with all packages installed. We also installed Yocto Fido R2 on it. Please download it from the FTP site and add it to your VMWare.
Features:

• Username: variscite
• Password: variscite
• Yocto Fido installed. Skip to the section: Build Yocto release
• NFS server configured. ~/rootfs is the file system
• TFTP server configured. Use /tftpboot
• Minicom installed and configured. /dev/ttyUSB0 is the device.