[yocto] Yocto in Virtualbox

[Scott Garman]

On 02/08/2012 12:14 AM, cnxsoft wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have build x86 qemu image using "bitbake -k core-image-sato" following
> the instructions given at
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html
> I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 in VirtualBox 4.1.6.
>
> When I run qemu, qemu starts apparently fine, but the qemu window stays
> black. So I'm suspecting that either it does not work in Virtualbox or I
> may have tochange some settings in qemu (e.g. -vga vmware).

Have you installed the Virtualbox guest additions within your VM?

Fwiw I've not run into any issues doing this with a Fedora 14 and Fedora 
16 VM (other than the builds themselves being dog slow). I make sure to 
install the guest additions in all my VMs.

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center