Installing Additional Components into VM

Submitted by Tariq Shureih, updated on 16 Sep 2008 - 0 comments

When this document was written, we didn’t have networking running in the VM. So to install additional components or packages from our YUM repo, follow these simple instructions:

Let’s say you want to install “wget” for your development needs.

  1. Create your Install or Live USB image (for example, Moblin.img) in MIC:
    1. Platform: menlow-lpia-moblin2
    2. Target + fsets: core + core-dev + x + x-dev
  2. Launch the target in a terminal by clicking “Terminal” in the Targets section of MIC
  3. Now you can use “yum” to install any components available in moblin2’s yum repository:
    $ yum search wget
    wget.i386 : A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols
    $ yum install wget
  4. Once done with installing all desired packages, exit the terminal
  5. Click “Live RW USB” or “Install USB” and assign it a name
  6. Click “Launch VM” if you chose “Live RW USB” or follow instructions in Installing Moblin run-time Image in a VM for installing the image into a VM vdisk.