Re: qemu wine experiments on ARM

2012-10-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Just a quick outline of one experiment to see if simple Win32 content-ware apps can be run. Commands may be missing switches, options and steps. Caveat reader. BYO smarts. On x87 host F17 - install livecd-tools

Re: qemu wine experiments on ARM

2012-10-05 Thread Reuben K. Caron
On Oct 5, 2012, at 12:59 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Qemu's user-mode is a lot more practical. We would need a minimal fedora x86 chroot that has wine, and use qemu over that. After a bit of googling, I found PRoot,

Re: qemu wine experiments on ARM

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: [reuben@koji3 ~]$ proot -Q wine/qemu-i386 mock/ proot info: started sh-4.2$ ls sh: fork: Invalid argument sh-4.2$ ok, so that's the fork . Avenues I can suggest. - The proot folks have their own (old) qemu-user rpms.

Re: qemu wine experiments on ARM

2012-10-05 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: [reuben@koji3 ~]$ proot -Q wine/qemu-i386 mock/ proot info: started sh-4.2$ ls sh: fork: Invalid argument sh-4.2$ ok, so that's the fork . Avenues I can

Re: qemu wine experiments on ARM

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: I have tested that patch already and it does not fix it with the current codebase. I believe you need to get qemu 0.14.1 to use that patch for success. Oh, grumble -- the discussion around it in the ml was not

Re: qemu wine experiments on ARM

2012-10-05 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: I have tested that patch already and it does not fix it with the current codebase. I believe you need to get qemu 0.14.1 to use that patch

Re: qemu wine experiments on ARM

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: This can't be that difficult will just take some more poking I think Maybe, and maybe not. The comments in this thread http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/113828 and discussion in

Re: [Techteam] 13.1.0 devel build 4 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: This is the first release adding support for the XO-4 On XO-4, I found that the resize process does not complete, so installing stuff is... awkward. Seems to hit 100% of the time for me. A quick workaround is to reboot

Re: Linux 3.7 Kernel To Support Multiple ARM Platforms - Slashdot

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: It supports basically 3 usable platforms at the moment, and likely not In summary... first step in a longish road. All ARM SoCs are quirky and non-discoverable (no PnP-style bus architecture). The path leads to a generic

Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012 Who: John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing build 44 11.3.1-au XO-1.75: Browse 192.3!! Rocking like it’s January 2010! Based on Firefox 3.6.23, 5 security releases made since! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_3.6#cite_note-41 Crashes if you visit

[Server-devel] units of measure for REGISTER_TIMEOUT in schoolserver.py

2012-10-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: I wondering what unit of measure is used for REGISTER_TIMEOUT in schoolserver.py. Think this variable may be a good candidate to store in gconf to allow alteration in the field as a means of resolving the timeout issues that have been reported. While working on the XS port to F17 we ran