I've been investigating ways to replicate an XO's experience in a virtual machine (VirtualBox), so that it can be run on other computers without requiring an XO. Our OS is a variant of OLPC OS 10.1.3, so I'm trying to replicate that.
We determined that booting the XO image directly does not work. Sugar on a Stick might be a good start. Drawbacks are that we would have to use v1 (Strawberry), and the Sugar 0.84 present in Strawberry is not the same as the one in the OLPC OS (a lot of changes have been made). My experimentation has been to install the OLPC packages (carefully avoiding the kernel) on top of a standard Fedora 11 install. I can get it to load to the Sugar name screen. If you enter a name and select your colours, you are prompted for them again. It does not proceed to the Home View. My method and findings are documented here: http://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au/wiki/Virtual_machine I feel that I am tantalisingly close, and I'd appreciate some assistance with this. I feel that a working VM solution can be of great benefit to the community. If it helps, I can put my VM image up for download and inspection. Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: [email protected] A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
