Building a Poky (Yocto Project) Image for QEMU
After looking at why you should build your own distribution in Rolling you own Linux distro with Yocto, And then looking on how bitbake works, it is time to dip our toes in the water and create first real image out of poky reference repository and actually run it using a virtual machine. Prerequisites I will be using Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, and will have about 100G of free space. Install required packages: sudo apt install liblz4-tool gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev xterm Clone poky which is the Yocto reference distribution(walnascar branch): git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky -b walnascar ~/poky Poky directory overview After cloning the poky repository a directory with the following files will be produced: ...