Building an image to QEMU

Following the same steps used in Chapter 2, Baking Our Poky-Based System, we are going to build an image to the QEMU ARM emulation.

The first step is to create the first project, which is a collection of configurations and builds that have already been performed.

As we don't have a project, we need to start one. Create a Project name and choose the target release, as shown in the following screenshot:

After creating my-first-project, we can see the main project screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

While on the Configuration tab, go to Machine and change it to qemuarm:

After that, click the Image Recipes tab to choose the image you want to build. In this example, as used in Chapter 2, Baking Our Poky-Based System, we can build core-image-full-cmdline:

The following screenshot shows the build process:

The build process takes some time, but after that, we can see the built image along with some statistics:

We can also verify the generated set of files, as shown in the following screenshot:

Toaster is a powerful tool. It can be used either on a local development machine or on a shared server to get a graphic representation of the build. Most tasks performed by BitBake can be achieved using Toaster as well.