Setting up a VM for Raspberry Pi development using Virtualbox, Scratchbox2 & qemu (Part 3)
I don't claim that the following is the best way to install scratchbox2, qemu and a seed rootfs and configure them to produce binaries that will run on the real Raspberry Pi hardware. I don't even claim it is the correct way but it works for me and I can almost do it in my sleep by now. The way I do things will probably seem a bit inefficient and in some cases just plain wrong but it's how I work and hopefully they are easy to follow and adapt to your style of working. I also make no guarantees that it will actually work for you at all. Hopefully it will but if it doesn't sorry but oh well. I made the decision when I first started building the development vm that I would place all the required software under the users home directory rather than installing it globally as
- Installing in subdirectories in the user's home directory makes it easy to keep things organised.
- It makes things almost idiotproof when you want to upgrade the ARM toolchain, scratchbox2, qemu or change the seed rootfs etc. as it's pretty much just rename the old directory, create a new directory and if neccessary rerun sb2-init.
