Re: Emulating the XO

2011-03-15 Thread forster
see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads#Virtual_Machines_on_all_platforms Tony What would it take to get the current OLPC OS working on a standard computer, e.g. using VirtualBox? I found these instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO Which are deprecated. I'm thinking

Re: Emulating the XO

2011-03-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Thanks. I'm aware of the Sugar Labs images, but we're looking to get the real OLPC OS (and preferably our XO-AU) working so that we can have the exact same environment working in the VM. Sridhar On 15 March 2011 17:52, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: see

Re: Emulating the XO

2011-03-15 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Sridhar Dhanapalan's message of Tue Mar 15 05:31:30 +0100 2011: What would it take to get the current OLPC OS working on a standard computer, e.g. using VirtualBox? I've been working on this a few weeks ago, but got stuck with a segfault in the initramfs, somewhere around the

Re: Emulating the XO

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
Sridhar, for a local training, I once looked at the SoaS build tools, tweak the config a bit, and built a SoaS that matched very very closely what OLPC ships. Search the soas list for my posts around 1 year ago. I published my configs. You should be able to do the same (grab the newer Sugar 0.84

Emulating the XO

2011-03-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
What would it take to get the current OLPC OS working on a standard computer, e.g. using VirtualBox? I found these instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO Which are deprecated. I'm thinking of giving it a go, but is there anything I should be aware of? Sridhar