Yocto Development Environment

Setting A Development Environment

Installing Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit in VMWare Player (for Yocto Morty and above)

There are many examples on the WEB. We recommend:

• Setting up Ubuntu in VMWare
• VMware Player | How to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Installing Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit in VMWare Player (Yocto Krogoth and legacy)

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 CPUs 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.