Status of the OLPC

[Bernardo Innocenti]

On 11/23/07 18:55, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote:
> VMWare Server is free - as is Virtual PC.

Both are "for free", but not "free software".

I tend to avoid depending on proprietary software as
much as possible.

Moreover, Virtual PC is not even available for my
platform and VMware's kernel module rarely builds
on the bleeding edge kernels I run.

As a result, the emulation on qemu may be higher quality,
but we'll try to fix VMware specific bugs if the
resolution is straightforward.


> The problem with VMWare I posted just recently, it boots and I get to a 
> white screen with a black x which responds to mouse movement, but nothing 
> ever goes beyond this.

As I replied in the other post, try a joyride build
and/or try enabling sound.

> Is there any more information I might be able to glean from it for you?

Yes: you could switch to the Linux console (CTRL-ALT-F1),
login as root (empty password) and look at the logs in
/home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/ .

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