Hi Sridhar, Tom Gilliard has done some fabulous work with VMs, see:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files Sean On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
