[olpc-community-support] testing collaboration

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Matt Price wrote:
> So all this leaves me a little discouraged, and i'm hoping for a little
> guidance from the community.  Is there anyone out there who has a really
> solidly-working xo-1 emulation working on a ubuntu system?  if so, would
> you be willing to share your secrets with me? Also, do other folks have
> a sense of the current status of collaboration in the core activities?

I have both ship2 and recent joyride builds successfully running under 
VMware Workstation 6. The host is Gentoo Linux, but that doesn't really 
matter with VMware. You won't be able to install VMware Tools in the 
guest, but it seems to work fine without them.

The process is described on

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Emulating_the_XO

towards the bottom. Email me off list if you want some details (and have 
VMware Workstation 6 -- I don't know if any of this magic will work on 
older versions.)