The development environment is provided as a Virtual Machine image.
To be able to use it, you first need to install VirtualBox. The version must be the 4.2.10 or above.
Go to:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
and download the version that suits your host operating system. You need to download and install the Extension Pack as well.
Important
Make sure that the extension pack has the same version of VirtualBox.
Install the software with all the default options.
Launch the program and follow these steps:
Tip
If you are using Linux, double click directly on the .ova file from your file explorer, there will appear a window so click import button.
Jump to step 3.
Important
The sudo password is pengwyn
Another important thing to do is to set the IP address of the virtual machine as static. To do this follow the next steps inside the virtual machine:
You can configure the system settings of the virtual machine. This is possible only if the virtual machine is off. First, select the Yocto based SDK virtual machine from the list of virtual machines, click on the Settings icon in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window:
In the left menu, click on System. In the Motherboard tab you can select how much RAM you want to assign to the vm.
Select Processor tab to select how many CPUs you want to assign to the virtual machine:
If you changed the number of processors, you might want to consider reading the guides on how to speedup the build process for Poky and HOB.