On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <srid...@laptop.org.au> 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.
About one year ago, I prepared a SoaS image matching roughly the user experience of OLPC's 10.1.1 . I did that by taking the build scripts for the closest SoaS I could find, and tweaking them. I don't have the URLs right now, but I posted a few times to the soas mailing list asking for help, and later with the end results. The archive of the soas ml should have the info you're after. I probably crossposted to sugar-devel too. Of course, you'll want to update it to 10.1.3 and newer activities. If it works, let us know :-) About your current effort... > 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. You are right, it seems you're very close. You seem to have olpc-utils installed, so Sugar starts. When it takes your name, it's trying to write it -- there's a good chance that it's failing to write it, can you get logs from that? It'll tell you what's broken. My comments (after reading the wikipage you link) - You are creating the olpc user and grp, but not matching uid/gid (500:500). Some scripts in olpc-utils may be hardcoded... - use chkconfig to start the olpc-configure "service" - this preconfigures /home/olpc . It will probably also mess up your keyboard map :-/ - you may need to kill/remove/uninstall pulseaudio hth, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel