On 11/24/07 13:56, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > Thanks for your help. Ok, that works in VMWare! And VMWare is much faster > than QEMU...
QEMU is both a full CPU emulator (slow, but portable) or use a kernel module like VMWare to virtualize the CPU (fast, but only works on same CPU of the guest). There are two kernel modules for Linux: KVM and KQEMU. The former is included with the latest kernels, but requires a patched emulator called qemu-kvm (packaged by all distros). I don't know if a solution like this is also available for Windows and MacOS X. A problem I've experienced with qemu-kvm is that, while the CPU becomes as fast as the native one, graphics output crawls. So there's some room for improvements, but qemu is mature and feature rich enough to replace VMware and not make you feel nostalgic about it. > I'll post a blog how to easily get it running in VMWare for others. Why don't you just edit the wiki page instead? Despite the scary notices about pages being maintained by the OLPC team, our wiki is publicly accessible! Either create a new page and link it around, or add a new chapter below the qemu one. > How can I tell what build it is so I can reference "from xxx and up" etc? Switch to the console: the build number appears above the login message. If not, "cat /etc/issue". > Also what are all the other img files? How to know what is what? We have jffs2 images for the flash, a plain tar.gz archive, the crc file, etc. Some more documentation would definitely be needed, but on the front page of the wiki you can find a pointer to the latest updare images. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
