Replicating XO experience in a VM

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 17 May 2011 19:19, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggest you look at the olpc-os-builder. Its pacakged in Fedora. Its
> also the series of scripts used to build the releases.
>
> The major difference between a XO image and any other image is the
> files produced at the end. I don't believe it would be hard to either
> A) extract the OS ext3 file system of an XO 1.5 and add it to a VM
> image or b) add a plugin to the scripts that produce something that
> can be imported into a VM.

Interesting idea. We are using the OS Builder to produce our builds,
but I didn't think of extending it to generate a VM-capable build.

Thanks,
Sridhar