[Trac #925] Tweak Qemu images for use by activity developers

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#925: Tweak Qemu images for use by activity developers
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 Reporter:  mcfletch  |       Owner:  blizzard 
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  distro    |    Keywords:           
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 The downloadable Qemu images are somewhat too restrictive.  Given that
 sugar-jhbuild takes far too much low-level hacking to get working at the
 moment we'd like to allow Python developers to work from the images in
 order to leverage some of the interest generated by PyCon.

 What's needed is likely the following:

  * Larger image disk size (sufficient to hold a few key libraries, this
 should compress down readily with bzip2)
  * pcnet32 network driver (to allow operation under vmware)
  * svn/bzr installation (without requiring a Yum update)

 We're continuing to work on developing best practices for getting started
 with Sugar quickly using the emulated systems, but this does appear to be
 the set of features that will allow reasonable development patterns under
 emulation.

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