While VM's are an excellent platform to build packages on if you do not have hardware, or are missing the knowledge/skill to setup chroot builds, they are completely useless if you can't properly use (or experience) the whole UI.
Developers here at Intel use VMs, sure, they boot them in runlevel 3 and use them to compile and build rpms. The actual *testing* is all done on moblin-compatible hardware. (not under a VM). A lot of people here are interested in quickly test driving moblin, and are disappointed because they think VMs are going to give them the experience that people like about moblin, but forgetting that without 3D graphics acceleration Moblin's UI does not even start. moblin will work on core2duo devices that have intel graphics as well. There are a lot of cases where VMs might work for what you want to do, but in general, Moblin is designed and runs best on atom-based netbooks. So, bottom line, I definately do not recommend running Moblin on VMs. Auke Vladimir Sysoev wrote: > Auke, > > I plan to use Moblin as target platform to teach my students in the unversity > and I definetly don't want to push them to purchase Atom devices for my > course. By the way moblin.org<http://moblin.org> recomends to use VM for > development as the best choice. I am very surprized by your recomendation not > to use VM. H-m-m i am really confused. > -vladimir > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Kok, Auke > <auke-jan.h....@intel.com<mailto:auke-jan.h....@intel.com>> wrote: > > I strongly recommend not using moblin under any sort of VM. The lack of > proper 3D > graphics acceleration makes any VM severely hindering the moblin experience. > While > it "may work", you're not getting what moblin is all about. > > Auke > > > > Vladimir Sysoev wrote: >> Exactly the same situation with 2.1 image. I plan to use Moblin as >> development platform for my students but i don't see any good instruction to >> boot the image under qemu and Ubuntu 9.10. >> In the installation doc i see that i should use qemu-kvm (not qemu) command >> to run qemu but i don't have such executable file installed with new Ubuntu >> 9.10. Does anybody able to run 2.1 development image under qemu + Ubuntu >> 9.10. >> >> -Vladimir >> >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Vladimir Sysoev >> <vladimir.sys...@gmail.com<mailto:vladimir.sys...@gmail.com>>wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I've installed 2.0 image on qemu as it recomended: >>> qemu -no-acpi -m 1024 -hda <2.0 image> -hdb vdisk.img -boot c -vga std >>> >>> After successful installation i run: >>> qemu -no-acpi -m 1024 -hda vdisk.img -boot c -vga std. >>> I see only black screen with "Moblin" and nothing else. qemu takes 100% of >>> CPU. >>> Can you help me? What i do wrong? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -- >>> -Vladimir >>> >> >> > > > > > -- > -Vladimir _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
