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I installed the Vivado tools in Windows when I went through other tutorials in preparation for the training. However, Ubuntu is used in training given the use of PetaLinux. I found the latest PetaLinux Tools Documentation Reference Guide UG1144 (v2019.1) May 22, 2019 which states that Ubuntu Linux 16.04.5, 18.04.1 (64-bit) is the current supported Ubuntu version. I found the version of Ubuntu here: Index of /releases

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  • My heart sunk a little when I saw we needed to do all this rather than just install the Xilinx tools on WIndows. Have you had any luck installing the Xilinx tools? I set up the VM and everything seems fine, but I haven't been able to set up the tools. The Xilinx SDx .tar.gz file gets corrupted somehow when copying from the VM shared folder to the VM desktop. There is no error when copying to the desktop, but when extracting and/or running md5sum on the file once on the desktop, I get Input/output error and it fails to extract and/or perform the md5sum. When I run m5sum on the file in the shared folder, it eventually reports the same value Xilinx provides, so I know something is wrong with copying it from the shared folder to the desktop.

  • in reply to nerdyupdates

    The petalinux tools will be needed to get through the builds and installs, so I found you will have to have a linux environment for that.  I haven't looked into a workaround.

    The installation of the Xilinx tools on windows also replaces the "cmd" command utility.  This isn't a big deal (use the Windows TShell utility instead), but I have heartburn over Xilinx replacing a windows component.

  • in reply to dcsoutherner

    Are you sure that the Xilinx tools replace cmd? I've installed them and I'm pretty sure they don't. It would be a very strange thing to do too. (I must admit I haven't done anything Petalinux specific though.)

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