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Docs: Industrial PC

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

An industrial PC needs two files. The Intel image is MCX-RTOS itself. The imager stick image turns a USB drive into a boot stick that installs the Intel image on the controller’s disk.

Open the motorcortex.io store and log in.
Download the Intel image. Its name starts with mcx-image and contains mcx-intel, for example mcx-image-dev-mcx-intel-2022.09-0-g7adb1a0.img.xz.
Download the imager stick image. Its name contains mcx-clonezilla, for example 2022-09-09_16-24-40_mcx-clonezilla_6Gb.img.xz. The stick is based on ClonezillaClonezilla is a free tool that copies whole disks to and from image files. The Motorcortex imager stick adds its own mci commands to it. .
Both files land in your Downloads folder. Leave them compressed: the .img.xz files are unpacked while they are written.

Docs: Raspberry Pi

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A Raspberry Pi runs MCX-RTOS from its SD card, so you need one file: the Raspberry Pi image.

Open the motorcortex.io store and log in.
Download the Raspberry Pi image. Its name starts with mcx-image and contains mcx-rpi4, for example mcx-image-dev-mcx-rpi4-2022.09-0-g7adb1a0.img.xz.
The .img.xz file lands in your Downloads folder. Leave it compressed: Raspberry Pi Imager unpacks it while it writes the card.

Docs: Virtual machine

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Which file you need depends on the program that runs the virtual machine:

Program	Host	File
QEMU	Ubuntu	The Intel disk image, a `.wic` file, possibly compressed as `.wic.xz` or `.wic.gz`
VirtualBox	Windows, or Ubuntu	The VirtualBox appliance, an OVAAn OVA (Open Virtual Appliance) file packs a complete virtual machine, its disk and its settings, into one file that VirtualBox imports. file such as `Motorcortex 2022.09.ova`

On Ubuntu, QEMU is the recommended way; VirtualBox is the older one.

Open the motorcortex.io store and log in.
Download the file for your program.
The file lands in your Downloads folder.