On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenf...@laptop.org> wrote: > At least historically, I have been told that OLPC does not support the XS in > virtual environments. > > This does not mean it is not possible; but officially OLPC may not be able > to support such VMs. > > I vaguely recall the reasons for this; but as it has been a while, I will > leave the official explanation to someone else. > >
I did try to install XS 0.6 in VM, but I quickly gave up because of the lanbonding stuff. I'm not even sure if it could be done, but nevertheless I gave up. With XS 0.7's simpler networking options (eth0, eth1) its a lot easier to run this server in VM. We are planning on some training sessions for teachers in Jamaica over the summer, and the main effort will focus on Moodle. Moodle is used extensively at Univ. of the West Indies (http://ourvle.mona.uwi.edu/) and at e-Learning Jamaica (http://www.e-ljam.net/moodle/) Most of the people in the Jamaica team are everyday users of Moodle. SF State also runs Moodle extensively. So Moodle is low-hanging fruit for us. The ability to run a local server in VM makes it a lot easier at training sessions where a good Internet connection may be absent. That's one of the motivations for creating this VM. As for official support business, I haven't seen much for Moodle (who uses Moodle?), so I hope that will improve (hint, hint). cheers, Sameer > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> >> I've uploaded a copy of a XS 0.7 VM to dev.l.o Details are at >> >> https://schoolserver.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/school-server-holodeck-style/ >> >> Try it out! >> >> cheers, >> Sameer >> -- >> Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >> Professor, Information Systems >> San Francisco State University >> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >> http://commons.sfsu.edu/ >> http://olpcsf.org/ >> http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Server-devel mailing list >> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
