[OLPC-devel] A little confused on using the Qemu Images ...

[Burnsmi]

Hey,

This is actually a somewhat common problem, one that I ran into
myself. Thankfully, it is easily fixed.

First make sure you are using the latest *stable* build, not
necessarily the latest nightly build. The latest stable is build 55
[1].

I haven't tried SuSe, so it may or may not work. Fedora works 'out of
the box', but Ubuntu has some issues with the version of Qemu it ships
with. If you get it working, please add any notes to the OLPC wiki
[2], for use by other people.

Hope that helps.

Michael Burns
Network Engineering
Oregon State University

[1] http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development/build55-20060801_1126/

[2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software#Classic_Linux_Environment


On 8/5/06, Michael Reith <michael.reith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I've been quietly following the OLPC for a few months now and would like to
> run the current build in a virtual environment to work out if I could do
> anything to help.
>
> My big question is ....
>
> Is it supposed to be possible to run the Qemu images pretty much anywhere,
> or is the actual laptop hardware required?
>
> Currently I'm trying to run the Qemu images on my desktop (Running Suse
> 10.1).  When I load the images (Both the Developer and the normal one) I get
> strange issues...  For the normal image - it boots and I select the "OLPC
> Simulator" from the grub menu as per the instructions but then it shows a X
> windows with my cursor, then it returns to run level 3.  After about 10
> seconds it switches back to X with only my cursor showing and then switches
> back to run level 3 again.  I've left this for about an hour with no change
> :(
>
> With the Developer image, it boots and I select the "OLPC Simulator" and it
> loads into the X environment however all it shows is a green web browser
> that I can surf the net with.  Nothing else is shown and I can't even close
> the web browser down.
>
> To use the Qemu images supplied on the Wiki, does one require the actual
> hardware? Or is it my setup in some way?  Should I be using Fedora Core 5
> instead of Suse for my desktop?
>
> The version of Qemu included in Suse 10.1 is 0.8.0, but I have tried
> downloading the latest version (0.8.2) and the result is the same :(
>
> Am I doing something stupidly obvious?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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