Replicating XO experience in a VM

[Sean DALY]

Hi Sridhar,

Tom Gilliard has done some fabulous work with VMs, see:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files

Sean


On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> I've been investigating ways to replicate an XO's experience in a
> virtual machine (VirtualBox), so that it can be run on other computers
> without requiring an XO. Our OS is a variant of OLPC OS 10.1.3, so I'm
> trying to replicate that.
>
> We determined that booting the XO image directly does not work. Sugar
> on a Stick might be a good start. Drawbacks are that we would have to
> use v1 (Strawberry), and the Sugar 0.84 present in Strawberry is not
> the same as the one in the OLPC OS (a lot of changes have been made).
>
> My experimentation has been to install the OLPC packages (carefully
> avoiding the kernel) on top of a standard Fedora 11 install. I can get
> it to load to the Sugar name screen. If you enter a name and select
> your colours, you are prompted for them again. It does not proceed to
> the Home View.
>
> My method and findings are documented here:
> http://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au/wiki/Virtual_machine
>
> I feel that I am tantalisingly close, and I'd appreciate some
> assistance with this. I feel that a working VM solution can be of
> great benefit to the community.
>
> If it helps, I can put my VM image up for download and inspection.
>
> Thanks,
> Sridhar
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Technical Manager
> One Laptop per Child Australia
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