On the next window, you will have to pick a new virtual hard disk- this is where we are going to load our VMware image. You will then be prompted on the amount of RAM you want to allocate to the VM- I recommend leaving the default value, but you can customize it. In the Operating System dropdown, select 'Linux' in Version, select 'Ubuntu'. I named mine Xubuntos, but you can name yours anything you want- this is just for identification. On the second window, you will get to name your VM and choose its type. A wizard will appear- on the first window, click 'Continue'. Now click on the 'New' button in the toolbar to create a new virtual machine (if this is your first time using Virtual Box, you might be prompted to do so at the first launch). From there, select the 'Xubuntos 2.X.vmdk' file that is located in the folder you just uncompressed (do NOT select any of the files with a code such as s00X before the vmdk extension). Before actually creating the VM, we have to add the VM image file to the list of available media to VirtualBox to create a VM from. Once the download is complete, decompress the archive you just obtained in a new folder the contents should be as follows: Download either version 2.0 or 2.1 of Xubuntos according to your needs (we use 2.1 in this document). These will come in the VMware format, but thankfully Virtual Box can read them. Once you have installed Virtual Box, you are going to need to download the Xubuntos virtual machine image. In this tutorial, the screen captures will be taken from a Mac OS X host system however Virtual Box should remain the same no matter which host OS you have.

Therefore the first thing you want to do is to download Virtual Box for your system- you can do so by going on Virtual Box's download page and choosing the appropriate platform. Whether you are on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux, you'll be able to run a Xubuntos VM just the same. We will be using VirtualBox here- even though VMWare is arguably better known, Virtual Box has the advantage of being free and multi-platform (amongst other things).

The main inconvenient to this approach is that VM tend to be quite intensive resource-wise you'll therefore need a rather recent computer. If you want to remove the TinyOS development toolchain, you just need to delete the Virtual Machine Your system isn't messed up by said installations No need to spend hours trying to install every component for TinyOS development There are several advantages to using a VM: If you run into problems, find that something doesn't work for you in this tutorial, or want to provide feedback of any kind, feel free to email me (Guillaume Ardaud) at g.ardaud(at) and I'll try and update this tutorial as soon as possible. The procedure has been successfully tested on a Mac Mini running Mac OS 10.6. In this document, we will see how to install Xubuntos inside a VirtualBox virtual machine (or VM).

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