Development Environment Question

[ndzied1]

Hello,

What are the advantages and disadvantages of setting up my dev. machine with Linux in a VM under Windows vs. setting up a machine to run Linux directly.

I'm just getting started and this seems like the first decision to make in installing the SDK.

Thanks,

Norm

[nickH · Accepted solution]

Hello Norm,

Yes, there are different alternatives for installation and setup of your Linux development environment for the SDK.

For the start, I would always recommend to setup a Development Environment using QEMU. This is the recommended way and it's also the easiest and quickest. Because a default user (boschrexroth/boschrexroth) and many necessary tools are automatically installed on the first boot. In addition, the QEMU is very lightweight and provides an emulator for both architectures arm64 and amd64.

But if you are a Linux expert and don't need Windows for your daily work, a native Linux can be your development environment of choice. Also because of performance reasons manly with the arm version of the QEMU.

Best regards

Nick

[ndzied1]

Thanks Nick,

I'll go with the QEMU as most of what I do is in Windows anyway.  

Regards,

Norm