Emulating stable build in Parallels Desktop on Mac OS X

[Bert Freudenberg]

The frame-buffer scaling is specific to Etoys. It traditionally uses  
its own OS-independent frame-buffer, rather than GTK/Cairo as the  
other activities do.

Ideally someone would patch Qemu to allow a 1200x900 resolution. In  
theory that would simply require adding a 1200x900x16 mode to the  
VESA mode list. Having that resolution would go a long way already,  
but adding scaling (even if by a fixed factor of 0.5) would make it  
an even better emulation environment.

- Bert -

On Nov 12, 2007, at 1:32 , Michael Vorburger wrote:

> > and etoys uses framebuffer scaling to emulate the XO's native  
> 1200x900 resolution.
>
> Hallo Bert,
>
> How does this work, and Is it specific to the etoys Activity or  
> would there be a way to configure this in a qemu image for X and  
> Sugar all activities? If yes, can you provide some diffs/pointers/ 
> etc. I volunteer to do the writing on the Wiki if that helps... :-)
>
> Gruss.
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2007 11:22 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>  
> wrote:
> I made a disk image of the latest stable build (623 [1]) that works
> for me in Parallels Desktop (build 3124 [2]).
>
> The disk image has enough room (I padded the img to a full 1 GB),
> runs with readable fonts (I patched xorg.conf as suggested in #3681),
> has working sound (I unmuted alsa manually) as well as network access
> (I added a S99parallels init script that simply does "ifup eth0"),
> and etoys uses framebuffer scaling to emulate the XO's native
> 1200x900 resolution.
>
> Here it is (200 MB):
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/Parallels-OLPC-623-bf.zip
>
> - Bert -
>
> [1] This is the stable version according to the wiki, builds 624 and
> 625 should behave no different when emulated.
>
> [2] That's the German version of Parallels 2.5, not tested on 3.0,
> though I expect it to work.
>
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