Emulating the XO/UsingVMware
VMware Player
Linux / Windows
Warning
For easy-to-use operation, you probably want to use Qemu, which is known to work on all of Linux, Win32 and Mac. Most recent builds do not support VMWare due to the lack of a pcnet32 network driver. See [[1]]. There are Developer Images available which are built on top of regular desktop environments and provide basically all drivers as well as a reasonable development environment, but in a much larger download (900MB+).
VMware Player is another convenient way to test the image on your Linux / Windows machine. You can convert an image to a VMware virtual disk file with the qemu-img command from the QEMU distribution.
$ qemu-img convert olpc-stream-development-59-20060808_1153-rpm-ext3.img -O vmdk olpc.vmdk
Additionally, you need a config file to run the virtual disk. Here is an example (save it as olpc.vmx).
#!/usr/bin/vmware config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "3" memsize = "128" ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.fileName = "olpc.vmdk" ide1:0.present = "TRUE" ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/cdrom" ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom" floppy0.fileName = "A:" ethernet0.present = "TRUE" ethernet0.connectionType = "nat" usb.present = "TRUE" sound.present = "TRUE" sound.virtualDev = "es1371" displayName = "OLPC" guestOS = "other26xlinux" ethernet0.addressType = "generated" uuid.location = "56 4d d1 99 5c 64 a3 6f-ef c7 aa 86 a8 cc ed 46" uuid.bios = "56 4d d1 99 5c 64 a3 6f-ef c7 aa 86 a8 cc ed 46" tools.remindInstall = "TRUE" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:cc:ed:46" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" checkpoint.vmState = "olpc.vmss" ide0:0.redo = ""
Start VMWare Player, open this .vmx file. Allow VMWare to create a new UUID.
Note: Make sure the emulator starts the 'OLPC for qemu target'.
Mac OSX
- Unzip the package and double click OLPC.VDMK
This package seems to be gone. Suggestions?
- It should worked with the livecd sdk. Download it from the downloads section. No need for the OLPC.VDMK if you run the livecd.
