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

[Christopher Blizzard]

Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
> (olpc-stream-development-55-20060801_1126-ext3.img) actually worked even
> though there were a some error messages about a bad lock during the eth0
> setup phase of the boot. I always have to remember to "sudo chmod 666
> /dev/net/tun" before using Qemu the first time.

The bad lock advertisements are actually a feature.  Code was added to 
the upstream kernel to dump warnings about improper lock use.  If you 
see that message, it might be a bug in the kernel.  That's why it's in 
the development images.

> On the 16th I will be giving a talk about OLPC and want to show some
> demos. I was thinking of using Qemu but am not sure if these images I
> mentioned above have the latest versions of Sugar (I would expect the
> current focus to be on low level things). The chat from 7 seems to be
> missing from 42 to 55, for example. Would it be better for me to try to
> get Sugar running natively on Gentoo and show that instead?
> 

Neat!  We can help you get content together for that if you want.  The 
problem with the sugar code is that's it's in flux so giving a live demo 
is pretty hard.  But what I can do is try to set you up with some good 
mockups and screenshots and give you the standard speech about our 
goals, methods and design methodologies.

--Chris