Doc pages (Was Re: Emulators (Was: Status of the OLPC))

2007-11-26 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Nov 24, 2007 3:17 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/24/07 13:56, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: I'll post a blog how to easily get it running in VMWare for others. Why don't you just edit the wiki page instead? Despite the scary notices about pages being maintained

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-24 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
? - Original Message - From: Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 4:33 AM Subject: Re: Status of the OLPC On 11/23/07 19:24, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: Ok I assume Latest symlink

Re: Emulators (Was: Status of the OLPC)

2007-11-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/24/07 13:56, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: Thanks for your help. Ok, that works in VMWare! And VMWare is much faster than QEMU... QEMU is both a full CPU emulator (slow, but portable) or use a kernel module like VMWare to virtualize the CPU (fast, but only works on same CPU of the

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 19:02, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: Yep. Sound is on. That was a separate bug, which I also logged and found in qemu... Maybe I need a newer build? Pointers on getting latest builds as img files? They are (temporarily) available from here:

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 19:24, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: Ok I assume Latest symlink it he one I want - but there are a bunch of img files... any pointers on what they all are or which one I want? This one should be ok:

RE: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Yes! There has been a 'Real Soon Now' mini-project to streamline and improve the emulation builds. Sugar-jhbuild has been (and can be How can I get involved in this? VMWare/Parrallels/VirtualPC/Bochs/QEMU is the best way we can reach them. I won't say I know when these changes will land,

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:18:33PM +0300, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: I ran into something simple - ie if no sound is present it goes into an infinite half-reboot cycle. Now all devices might have audio and it was because I was using Bochs, but it seems that it should handle that better. I

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
: Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:12 AM Subject: Re: Status of the OLPC On 11/23/07 19:02, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: Yep. Sound is on. That was a separate bug, which I also logged and found in qemu... Maybe I need a newer build? Pointers on getting latest builds as img files

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
@lists.laptop.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:49 AM Subject: Re: Status of the OLPC On 11/23/07 05:18, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: Will the emulation Builds be improved? Emulation seems a great way to involve more people, but we should have some better way. It seems many builds don't work out

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-22 Thread Michael Burns
On Nov 22, 2007 2:18 PM, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read what is on the web of course - but from reading messages here for a few days and also playing with some builds it seems that there is still a fair bit of polishing left to do? Depends on what you mean by