APPLICATION NOTE
RZ/A1
Creating a Linux VM
Introduction
The purpose of this document is to explain how to create a Virtual Machine on a Windows PC such that a Linux environment can be created in order to build a Linux kernel and applications.
It also explains how to download and extract the RZ/A1 BSP.
For this app note, VMWare Player and Ubuntu 14.04 will be installed.
Target Device
Contents
1. Install a Virtual Machine ... 2
2. Download Ubuntu Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS ... 2
3. Create a New Virtual Machine ... 2
4. Shutting down your Virtual Machine ... 3
5. Install Some Additional Software Package Need for Kernel Building ... 3
6. Download and Extract the RZ/A1 BSP ... 3 EU_00180
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1. Install a Virtual Machine
Install a virtual machine of your choice: VMWare Player, VMWare Workstation, VirtualBox, etc… For this appnote, VMWare Player 6 will be used.
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/6_0
2. Download Ubuntu Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Go to the following website and find the download for Ubuntu 14.04.01 LTS: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
Make sure you download the 32-bit version because it will ensure it will work with all the Linux binary tools. You should be saving an ISO file (ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-i386.iso)
3. Create a New Virtual Machine
Launch your Virtual Machine app (VMWare Player in our case) and select to create a new virtual machine. The following is for VMWare Player 6.
Click “Create new Virtual Machine”
On the next screen, it will ask you if you have an ISO file to install with. Point it to the .iso file you downloaded. VMWare Player should recognize it.
On the next screen, it will ask you for:
Full Name: Pick whatever you want…like “Renesas”…or your own name “John Smith”
User Name: Pick whatever you want…like “renesas”...or your own name (a short simple name and lower case is usually best like ‘john’ or jsmith’)
Password: Pick whatever you want…like “1234”….but keep it simple since this is just a virtual machine
On the next screen, it will ask you for a Virtual Machine name. Pick whatever you want, like “Ubuntu 14.04 LTS”. Note that it will also ask you where on your PC you want to save your virtual machine files
On the next screen, it will ask you for how big of a hard drive you need. The defaults are fine (20GB, split into multiple files)
Click “Finish” to have the virtual machine created which will automatically boot it and start the install process of the Ubuntu OS.
Simple use your username/password that you selected above to log in.
4. Shutting down your Virtual Machine
When you are done using your virtual machine and want to shut down your virtual machine application (VMWare Player for example), you should properly ‘shut down’ the virtual OS. For Ubuntu, that would be use the gear icon in the upper right corner and selecting shutdown.
Alternatively, you can ‘suspend’ the virtual machine by pressing the pause button. This allows you freeze your Linux OS so you can then shut down the virtual machine player (VMWare). Then later, you can come back and ‘resume’ your PC image and pick up where you left off.
5. Install Some Additional Software Package Need for Kernel Building
These software packages are not part of the default Ubuntu install, so you need to install them yourself.From a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T), install the following packages by entering the follow. Note that the ‘sudo’ command in front (sudo stands for “super user do”) will require you to enter your password…the same one you used to log in.
$ sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools $ sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev
6. Download and Extract the RZ/A1 BSP
Download the BSP and extract to /home/renesas/RSKRZA1-BSP-V1.0.0
NOTE: This assumes your username for Linux was “renesas”. If you used your own name, then simply modify the path name as needed.
From a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T): $ cd /home/renesas
$ wget https://github.com/renesas-rz/rskrza1_bsp_releases/raw/master/RSKRZA1-BSP-V1.0.0.tar.bz2 $ tar x RSKRZA1-BSP-V1.0.0.tar.bz2
You should now be able to build the software in the RZ/A1 BSP: $ cd RSKRZA1-BSP-V1.0.0
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