i.MX Yocto Project: Can I use a virtual machine to build?

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You can but building times will take much longer (approximately 2 times longer for the core-image-minimal) compared to a build done on a native machine. In case you can not do the build on a native machine, make sure your virtual has enough hard-disk room (at least 50GB). For example, these are the build folders sizes after baking core-image-minimal:

build$ du -h --max-depth=1

1.3G    ./sstate-cache

3.2M    ./cache

12K    ./.hob

32K    ./conf

22G    ./tmp

23G    .

The tmp folder is by far the largest (containing building statistics, source code, deployed images, etc.)

build/tmp$ tree -L 2 -d

.

├── buildstats

│   ├── cogl-imx6qsabresd

│   ├── fsl-image-gui-imx6qsabresd

│   ├── fsl-image-gui-sdk-imx6qsabresd

│   ├── mesa-dri-imx6qsabresd

│   ├── mesa-imx6qsabresd

│   └── pseudo-native-imx6qsabresd

├── cache

│   └── default-eglibc

├── deploy

│   ├── images

│   ├── licenses

│   └── rpm

├── log

│   ├── cleanlogs

│   └── cooker

├── pkgdata

│   ├── all-poky-linux

│   ├── all-poky-linux-gnueabi

│   ├── armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi

│   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux

│   └── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi

├── sstate-control

├── stamps

│   ├── all-poky-linux

│   ├── all-poky-linux-gnueabi

│   ├── armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi

│   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux

│   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi

│   ├── work-shared

│   └── x86_64-linux

├── sysroots

│   ├── imx6qsabresd

│   ├── imx6qsabresd-tcbootstrap

│   └── x86_64-linux

├── work

│   ├── all-poky-linux

│   ├── all-poky-linux-gnueabi

│   ├── armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi

│   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux

│   ├── imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi

│   └── x86_64-linux

└── work-shared

    └── gcc-4.7.2-r13