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<< [[Developers/Setup]] |
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In the past, OLPC produced alternative software images which could be run in emulators such as QEMU and VMware. This meant that development and testing could happen to a limited extent without requiring an XO laptop. |
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'''In 2013, please see Tom Gilliard's many [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit virtual machine images ready-to-go].''' |
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Emulators allow you to run a "virtual machine" on a (reasonably powerful) host machine. There are a number of emulator systems available which can be used to run a simulated OLPC-XO. |
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Note, XOs are readily available to genuine volunteer contributors through the [[Contributors program]]. |
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See the [[Developers/Setup#Emulation Packages/Products|Developer's Manual]] for a discussion of the general merits of the various packages and the ways you might want to use emulation in the development process. Always keep in mind that emulation is [[Emulating the XO/Limitations of XO disk images|Not Perfect]]. |
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[http://sugarlabs.org Sugar], the unique user interface of the XO laptops, is also distributed as a generic software project and can be developed and tested on "regular" computers as well as XOs. See [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads Sugar Labs Downloads] for the full range of options, such as [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar on a Stick]. |
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See [[Emulating the XO/Comparison of Alternatives|Comparison of Alternatives]] for a grid showing which environments have been tested and found to work on which host operating systems. |
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* Configuration and Usage |
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** [[Emulating the XO/Quick Start]] |
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** [[How to set up for development on linux emulation]] |
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* [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sugar-olpc/index.html Tutorial] article on how to get this working. |
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* [[Improving emulation]] |
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If you are running linux, there is an ''experimental'' [http://dev.laptop.org/~mncharity/olpc_xo_qemu/ package] to simplify using qemu for emulation. Feedback encouraged. |
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== Build recommendations == |
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For running XO disk images on an emulator, some builds are better than others, and the most recent one will not always work. Here is a summary of current status. Please add your own experiences here, and in [[User Feedback on Images]]. |
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Current [http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/ joyride] builds generally work (as of ~1400). |
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Presence service (mesh view and collaboration) wont work by default, because they are configured with a presence service providing jabber server of ship2.jabber.laptop.org, which doesn't yet exist. There is an overloaded and fragile jabber.laptop.org which may be used in the meantime. -- [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 22:42, 14 December 2007 (EST) |
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I've had good luck with all of the ship2 builds under VMware Workstation 6. -- Ed Borasky (Znmeb), 15 December 2007. |
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For emulation of extremely old builds, you may be able to come across "ext3 images" on some corners of http://download.laptop.org and http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/ which can be loaded into emulators. You are unlikely to find support for them! |
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In the past, OLPC produced alternative software images which could be run in emulators such as QEMU and VMware. This meant that development and testing could happen to a limited extent without requiring an XO laptop.
In 2013, please see Tom Gilliard's many virtual machine images ready-to-go.
Note, XOs are readily available to genuine volunteer contributors through the Contributors program.
Sugar, the unique user interface of the XO laptops, is also distributed as a generic software project and can be developed and tested on "regular" computers as well as XOs. See Sugar Labs Downloads for the full range of options, such as Sugar on a Stick.
For emulation of extremely old builds, you may be able to come across "ext3 images" on some corners of http://download.laptop.org and http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/ which can be loaded into emulators. You are unlikely to find support for them!