Emulating 8.2 images on QEMU for windows

[Wade Brainerd]

I'd love to get the Windows installer capable of installing without
issue on Vista, but I lack a Vista machine to test.  I would welcome
any assistance with this matter!

Also, regarding downloading the image instead of bundling it, It easy
to modify the installer to download the image.  NSIS has a Download
plugin for this exact purpose.  That would drop the initial file size
down to a few MB, and we could add a disk space check beforehand.

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To work on the installer:

Install NSIS from nsis.sourceforge.net.

Get the installer source code:
git clone git://dev.laptop.org/git/users/wadeb/wininstall/.git

Or, download the source .tgz source file from this link:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/wadeb/wininstall/.git;a=snapshot

The installer code is all in the 'olpc.nsi' file.  This is a simple,
text based install script.  The NSIS download has full documentation
for the language.

Cheers,
Wade


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mwarren wrote:
>>
>> I put together a new Quick Start bundle at
>> http://sites.google.com/site/olpcqemu/Home/olpc_qemu_8.2.0.zip (4.7 MB).
>> The
>> bundle includes Ton's qemu-svn-4887, KQEMU 1.4.0pre1, the cwRsync bundle
>> (rsync, cygwin1.dll, PuTTY), curl and bunzip2. The OLPC image has been
>> replaced with a get-image.cmd script that automatically downloads an
>> image,
>> bunzip2's it, and creates a linked .qcow2.img file.  I would appreciate it
>> if you can try out the bundle and give feedback -
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Mwarren&action=edit .
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> Works fine for me on Win XP/SP3.
> A few remarks:
> - Might put a warning in for people (like me) who already have Cygwin
> installed.
>  Two cygwin1.dll on the same system can create problems.
> - Put more emphasis on 'run as Administrator' for the install start and stop
>  of the kqemu service.
>  Without kqemu you do not have run as Administrator (but it will be very
> slooooow).
> - You do not say how to ssh into the emulated XO:
>  For a command line ssh: 'ssh -p 2222 olpc at localhost'.
>  For PuTTY you have to change the port from 22 to 2222.
>  Also you first have to set a password on the olpc account in the emulated
> xo,
>  otherwise no ssh logins are allowed.
> - You might want to mention to let software update download all the G1G1
> activities
>  on the first boot of the emulated xo.
>  Alternatively we could set up an image somewhere with the G1G1 activities
> already
>  included.
>
> It might be an idea to combine your approach with Wade Brainerd's installer.
> See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-November/021016.html .
> However the installer has problems installing the service on Vista due to
> UAC.
>
> I cc'ed Wade on this email.
>
> Good work !!
>
> Ton van Overbeek
> PS Have not updated my original zip with libusb0.dll yet. Will do this soon.
>