VMWareImage

Intro

One aspect of Embedded development that is sub-optimal is that you sometimes have to install a number of arcane packages (okay... okay... so GCC 4.1.1 is _not_ arcane) and configure your host system in somewhat weird ways. For instance, one thing I noticed about GumStix development on Ubuntu is that you have to link /bin/sh to /bin/bash (the default is for it to be linked to /bin/dash). Last year at eTel Benoit Schilling mentioned that the QT guys distribute a VMWare image with all the tools properly configured to do QT development so you can try it out without making permanent changes to your development system.

This sounds like a good idea, if you ask me... Not being a GumStix employee, it wasn't on the top of my list of things to do. But.. now that development of Goliath and Jowles is starting up in earnest, I figured it was time to make it easy on myself and others.