4.3.1.1. Establish the Reference Image

Local repositories for both the Yocto Project and your project must exist in addition to the image built by the OpenEmbedded build system. The steps to clone the poky Git repository, build out an image, and test it using QEMU are well documented as follows:

Before you start making modifications to your project's source code, you should be sure you have the appropriate local repositories and have a base image built using BitBake that you can run on QEMU.