Quick Start Guide

Development Environment (Yocto Build System)

We have moved our preconfigured vmware machines to a new sharepoint (https://share.kontron.ch/)

To gain access to our SharePoint, please email us at support@kontron.ch


Link: https://mysnt.sharepoint.com/:u:/r/teams/CloudshareCHCL/Shared%20Documents/Public/SDK
Files:

  • 20220503_Ubuntu 20.04_Yocto-SDK-VM.ova (used for VirtualBox)

  • 20250317_Ubuntu-22.04.05 64-bit VMWare.ova (used for VMware)

Default user with root rights:

  • User: user

  • Password: user


First Steps building a image

  1. Download & open vmare image (use min. 12GB RAM for the VM)

  2. Open  a console

  3. Console Command: “cd yocto-ktn”

  4. Console Command: “. init-env –u build-kch-sample

  5. Console Command: “bitbake image-kontron-base”

Remarks

  • To include further yocto packages edit the file local.conf (Enviroment Variable: CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL)

  • The conf/local.conf file contains corresponding instructions such as changing the platform (MACHINE) and setting additional options.

  • For any further informations look at https://docs.kontron-electronics.de/yocto-ktn/yocto-ktn/

Please note that the following SW packages are licensed and you may use them only with a valid license which you can obtain from us.

Licensed Software

  • CODESYS

  • MicroBrowser

  • QTWebBrowser

  • SystemWebConfig