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<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-422-20070514_1555-devel_ext3.img</td>
<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-422-20070514_1555-devel_ext3.img</td>
<td>qemu 0.8.2<br>kqemu-1.3.0-1 kqemu-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948</td>
<td>qemu 0.8.2<br>kqemu-1.3.0-1 + kqemu-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948</td>
<td>Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB</td>
<td>Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB</td>
<td>Runs. No sound. It looks like the ui spec changed, and some activities are still catching up.</td>
<td>Runs. No sound. It looks like the ui spec changed, and some activities are still catching up.</td>
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<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-385-20070406_2335-ext3.img</td>
<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-385-20070406_2335-ext3.img</td>
<td>qemu 0.8.2<br>kqemu-1.3.0-1 kqemu-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948</td>
<td>qemu 0.8.2<br>kqemu-1.3.0-1 + kqemu-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948</td>
<td>Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB</td>
<td>Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB</td>
<td>Works fine with kqemu. Slow without it. Works: network. Doesn't work: sound.</td>
<td>Works fine with kqemu. Slow without it. Works: network. Doesn't work: sound.</td>
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<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img</td>
<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img</td>
<td>qemu 0.8.2</td>
<td>qemu 0.8.2</td>
<td>Debian testing (Etch), AMD Athlon XP 2600 1GB RAM </td>
<td>Debian testing (Etch), AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 1GB RAM </td>
<td>boots ok, works very slowly, no keyboard input, hangs unexpectedly</td>
<td>boots ok, works very slowly, no keyboard input, hangs unexpectedly</td>
<td>jan 2007.03.02</td>
<td>jan 2007.03.02</td>
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<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-239-20070118_1416-devel_ext3.img.bz2</td>
<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-239-20070118_1416-devel_ext3.img.bz2</td>
<td>qeumu 0.6.0-2mdk</td>
<td>qeumu 0.6.0-2mdk</td>
<td>Mandrake 10.1, Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk, Athlon XP 2100 , 1536MB RAM</td>
<td>Mandrake 10.1, Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk, Athlon XP 2100+, 1536MB RAM</td>
<td>when Qemu goes graphical, freezes with weird screen garbage</td>
<td>when Qemu goes graphical, freezes with weird screen garbage</td>
<td>ShawnMurphy, 2007.01.19</td>
<td>ShawnMurphy, 2007.01.19</td>
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<tr><td>build 217 20070105_1724 devel_ext3.img</td>
<tr><td>build 217 20070105_1724 devel_ext3.img</td>
<td> qemu 0.8.2</td>
<td> qemu 0.8.2</td>
<td> Debian unstable, Athlon XP 2400 , 512MB RAM Linux 2.6.18.2 (vanilla)</td>
<td> Debian unstable, Athlon XP 2400+, 512MB RAM Linux 2.6.18.2 (vanilla)</td>
<td> Boots fine, but very slow. Apps work, except for abiword which just has a gray screen (same color as frame). No IP, but 'dhclient' fixes that. Changing 'onboot=yes' doesn't help. Got some kernel problems (IRQ4?) when starting vi/nano though, see http://rootshell.be/~ludoa/messages for my logfile
<td> Boots fine, but very slow. Apps work, except for abiword which just has a gray screen (same color as frame). No IP, but 'dhclient' fixes that. Changing 'onboot=yes' doesn't help. Got some kernel problems (IRQ4?) when starting vi/nano though, see http://rootshell.be/~ludoa/messages for my logfile & more info. Installed kqemu, modprobe'd it, but -kernel-kqemu gives a kernel panic, see [http://rootshell.be/~ludoa/olpc_qemu_with_kqemu.png rootshell.be/~ludoa/olpc_qemu_with_kqemu.png]</td>
<td>LudoA, 2007.01.06</td>
</tr>

<tr><td>build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img</td>
<td> qemu 0.8.2</td>
<td> Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft - x86_64</td>
<td> Hangs on boot. Adding ''apm=off'' to kernel boot params in grub fixes this. It then boots Sugar (the UI), but no keyboard or mouse. CTRL-3 and then ''modprobe i8042'' fixes this. Sugar works fine, but is quite slow. Also, no sound (even with ''qemu -soundhw all''). Networking works fine. Will try to get qemu accelerator working in the future to improve performance.</td>
<td>2007.01.05</td>
</tr>

<tr><td> build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> qemu 0.8.2 (-std-vga)</td>
<td> Ununtu 6.06 </td>
<td> Boots into GUI, asks for nickname and then no keyboard or mouse. The modprobe i8042 trick did not work until I told qemu to use a standard vga output (-std-vga). Still pretty slow. I have tried to get networking or sound going yet.</td>
<td>Jeff Waddell 2007.01.04</td>
</tr>

<tr><td> build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> qemu 0.8.1-1 (-soundhw all -hda)</td>
<td> Debian etch (testing) </td>
<td> Boots into GUI, but no keyboard or mouse before "modprobe i8042" several times (!) on the serial console (Ctrl-Alt-3). No networking or sound, slow. </td>
<td> </td></tr>

<tr><td> build-183 20061116_1824 devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.1, from Debian's repository </td>
<td> Acer Aspire AMD 1.8 Ghz 1GB RAM; Debian etch (testing); Linux 2.6.17-2-k7; </td>
<td> Boots into the GUI and works fine. Is not 100% responsive, but it's expected. To be able to view the entire eToys screen, had to edit the Grub boot entry and change the display size to vga=0x317 </td>
<td> To_be_created </td></tr>

<tr><td> build-182 20061114_2135 devel_ext3.img</td>
<td>Qemu 0.6.2 from Debian Sarge</td>
<td>Dual-cpu AMD Athlon MP, 1GHz; Debian Sarge; 2.6.11-1-k7-smp</td>
<td>Boots into GUI and works OK, using apm=off. Slow. Had to edit Grub boot entry; the image already handled the suggested xorg.conf fix.</td>
<td>John Gilmore</td></tr>

<tr><td> build-182 20061114_2117 ext3.img(.bz2) </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2 + kqemu 1.3.0pre9 2.4.33.3</td>
<td> Athlon XP 2000+ 786 RAM; Slackware 11.0; Linux 2.4.33.3; </td>
<td> Boot into GUI ok, the system works fine and fast</td>
<td> darkmagus </td></tr>
<tr><td>build 185 and 197</td>
<td> QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td>AMD AthlonXP 3000+ 2.16 GHz 512MB RAM, Suse 10.1 </td>
<td> Booted into GUI successfully，keyboard and mouse work, no sound - good with qemu accelerator </td>
<td> Tim UK. 19 Dec 2006 </td></tr>

</table>

=== QEMU on Windows ===
See [[Using QEMU on Windows XP]] instructions and [[Emulating the XO]].
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><th> Build Name </th><th> QEmu Version </th><th> Windows System </th><th> Description </th><th> username</th></tr>
<tr>
<td> build-276-20070228_1834-devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 20070114-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Pentium 4 2.6GHz, 512Mb RAM, XP Pro SP2 </td>
<td> Boots OK, but the sign-in screen does not let you select an image and therefore will not let you proceed. Apparently, the camera module imports OK but won't return a valid pixmap? Worked around it by commenting out the part of /usr/share/sugar/shell/intro/intro.py that tries to import the glive module. This gives a file button you can click to select an image, but it will not let you browse to files... I had to find an image filename in the system and manually type it in (/usr/share/icons/olpc/16x16/stock/emoticons/stock-smiley-1.png). This gets me past the opening screen to the sugar shell. Camera, abiword, memosono, and slideshow fail to launch. Blockparty, Groupchat, PenguinTV, etoys, web, and tamtam seem to work, although there is of course no sound in any application. Using yum to install the full version of vim fails due to lack of space in the image.</td>
<td>&mdash;[[User:Leejc|Leejc]] 00:13, 1 March 2007 (EST)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 20070114-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz, 1GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 </td>
<td> Seems to boot and work well, no control problems, but does not run DHCP on startup, easily worked around by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1, logging in as root, and running dhclient then returning with Ctrl-Alt-F7. Seems a little slower than running the same image under VMWare Player on Linux on an Athlon64 3200+, but this only really seems to affect boot speed. Looks nice! Unfortunately the default save location is "File System" which crashes AbiWord on saving, and loading files from the "OLPC" folder doesn't appear to work either (again apparent crash).</td>
<td>--RP 16:34, 31 January 2007 (CST)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> build-231-20070113_0023-ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Celeron M 1.60GHz, 1GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 </td>
<td> No problems booting, no problems with mouse or keyboard (didn't need to use modprobe at all). Network worked fine after applying the documented fix. However, after getting the network running, experienced the same problem below with repeated '1's appearing in an input text field (actually Google's search field) immediately afterwards. The system's speed is a little slower than what normally might be expected, but not too bad. No problems starting/using applications (I'm editing this page using the emulator!) </td>
<td>--[[User:Dox|Dox]] 04:45, 15 January 2007 (EST)</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> build-193-20061203_1714-ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Dell Precision M70 Laptop, Pentium M 2.27 GHz, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 </td>
<td> Boots fine and into GUI, had to use modprobe twice to get keyboard/mouse to work. Network worked after fix. Works fine except the frame around the edge is very slow to appear.</td>
<td>Sam</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Intel 2.6 GHz dualcore, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 </td>
<td> had to use ctrl-alt-3 (not 1) to bring up shell and ctrl-alt-1 (not 7) to bring back gui. had to modprobe 6 times to get mouse and keyboard to run. gui works ok and fast. tamtam looks garbled.</td>
<td>martsch</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Intel 2.16 GHz, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 </td>
<td> Same mouse and keyboard issue. Used the "modprobe i8042" fix but it ctrl-alt-1 and ctrl-alt-2 do not work so I could not switch back from ctrl-alt-3 after modprobe.</td>
<td>flatwethat</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Intel 2.66 GHz, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 </td>
<td> Same mouse and keyboard issue. Used the "modprobe i8042" fix but it needed to be run three times before OK. Then when input text field is given focus it prints 11111111111111111... until the delete key is hit. After deleting the input, the input text field works as expected.</td>
<td>illations</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Celeron M 1.60 GHz, 500MB RAM, XP home SP2 </td>
<td> Mouse and keyboard do not work as reported below but I used the "modprobe i8042" fix listed in the Linux feedback above and it works OK </td>
<td> James</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Pentium 4 3.02 GHz, 1GB RAM, XP SP2 </td>
<td> Mouse and keyboard do not work </td>
<td> Aaron </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 </td>
<td>HP Pavillion dv5000 laptop,1.8Ghz, 1gb ram, XP MCE SP2</td>
<td> mouse and keyboard don't work </td>
<td> anger2headshot </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>build-192 20061201_1843 devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 </td>
<td>Fujitsu Siemens 3,2 Ghz 1 Gb RAM, XP SP2</td>
<td> keyboard and mouse do not work, nothing really possible </td>
<td> Henubis DEC 3, 2006 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>build-185 20061117_2030 devel_ext3.img</td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 </td>
<td>Falcon Mach V AMD Athlon64 3200, 2 GHz 1GB RAM, XP SP2</td>
<td> keyboard and mouse OK, no network or sound. (network worked converted to VMWare Player). I updated [[Using QEMU on Windows XP|instructions]] </td>
<td> -- [[User:Skierpage|Skierpage]] 19:06, 3 December 2006 (EST) </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>59-20060808_1153 ext3.img </td>
<td> QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Dell Latitude D600 1.5GHz 512MB RAM, XP SP2 </td>
<td> Booted into GUI successfully </td>
<td> --[[User:Tomhannen|Tomhannen]] 21:33, 17 November 2006 (EST)</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>olpc-redhat stream-development devel_ext3.img</td>
<td> QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Lenovo AMD Athlon(tm)XP 3000+ 2.16 GHz 512MB RAM, XP SP2 </td>
<td> Booted into GUI successfully，keyboard and mouse do not work </td>
<td> --User:wonder from xi‘an，china 12:33, 7 December 2006 (EST)</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>build-185 20061117_2000 ext3.img</td>
<td> QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td> Dell Latitude D600 1.5GHz 512MB RAM, XP SP2 </td>
<td> Booted into GUI successfully, but had to [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Using_QEMU_on_Windows_XP#How_to_Get_Networking_to_Work_in_QEmu do this]] to get a network connection</td>
<td> --[[User:Tomhannen|Tomhannen]] 10:35, 7 December 2006 (EST)</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img</td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 </td>
<td>HP Compaq, 1 Gb RAM, XP SP2</td>
<td> keyboard and mouse did not work, "modprobe i8042" fix couldn't load module at first - but repeatedly running the modprobe command (quickly) eventually succeeded and now it works ok</td>
<td> CNS Jan 2, 2007 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img</td>
<td> QEMU 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 </td>
<td> AMD Athlon XP 3200+, 1GB Ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, Windows XP SP2 </td>
<td> Booted into GUI successfully, keyboard and mouse seemed broken but the issue was resolved used the 'modprobe' fix mentioned above. Slightly slow and the frame kept popping up at inconvenient points. Also after fixing keyboard issue and after enabling network access the first textbox I entered began to fill up with the character 1 and did not stop until I pressed something else on the keyboard. I expect this has something to do with the switching screen procedures common to each scenario.</td>
<td> Anon. Jan 02. 2007 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img</td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 </td>
<td>AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.7 GHz 512MB RAM, XP Pro SP1 </td><td> As above keyboard and mouse did not work but repeated "modprobe i8042" eventually worked (it's Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the GUI once the module has loaded). Also had to follow instructions as linked to in feedback above to get a network connection and I too found the textbox filling with 1s. </td>
<td> tom. Jan 2, 2007 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img</td>
<td>Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9</td>
<td>Intel P4 3GHz 512MB RAM, XP Pro SP2 </td><td>Got the mouse and keyboard working with:<br>ctrl+alt+3, login as "root", enter "modprobe i8042", enter, ctrl+alt+1<br>
Got the network connected as per the instructions. Obviously the OS is a work in progress so a few little niggles but it's quick enough and looks good.</td>
<td>Tim. Jan 2, 2007 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img</td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 </td>
<td>AMD X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 2048MB RAM, Vista RC2 Build 5744</td><td>Problem and solution the same as above. Just wanted to say it's running on Vista RC2 </td>
<td> ACluk90. Jan 2, 2007 </td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td>build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img</td>
<td> Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 </td>
<td>Dell Inspiron, 512 MB RAM, XP SP2</td><td>The usual (had to use keyboard, mouse, and networking fixes). 7-Zip said the first two images I downloaded were corrupt (olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-193-20061203_1714-ext3.img.bz2 and olpc-redhat-stream-development-ext3.img.bz2). Loved the interface. Great use of screenspace, etc.</td>
<td> Anon. Jan 3, 2007 </td>
</tr>

</table>

=== QEMU on MacOS X ===

<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><th> Build Name </th><th> QEmu Version </th><th> System Info </th><th> Description </th><th> username</th></tr>

<tr>
<td> olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-166-20061110_1609-ext3.img </td>
<td> Q 0.8.1 </td><td> MacBook 13" Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM </td>
<td> Boots into GUI, a bit sluggish response </td>
<td> [[User:Calyth|Calyth]] </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-185-20061117_2030-devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> Q 0.8.1 </td>
<td> MacBook 13" Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM </td>
<td> Same feel as build 166 documented above </td>
<td> [[User:Calyth|Calyth]] </td>
</tr>
</table>


=== Parallels on MacOS X ===

<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><th> Build Name </th><th> Parallels Version </th><th> System Info </th><th> Description </th><th> username</th></tr>



<tr>
<td> olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-185-20061117_2030-devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> Build 1970 </td>
<td> MacBook 13" 2Ghz Intel Core2Duo, 1GB RAM </td>
<td> Runs well, no networking or sound - perhaps configuration of Parallels? </td>
<td> [[User:mpesce|mpesce]] <br>1 Dec 2006 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> olpc-redhat-stream-development-devel_ext3.img.bz2 (build 206) </td>
<td> Build 1898 </td>
<td> MacBook 13" 1,83Ghz Intel CoreDuo, 1,256GB RAM </td>
<td> Runs but would not start GUI; fbdev blinks and keeps respawning</td>
<td> [[User: Wooky|wooky]] <br>1 Jan 2007 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-217-20070105_1724-devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> Build 3094 </td>
<td> MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.33Ghz Intel Core2Duo, 2GB RAM </td>
<td> Runs ok. Had to manually run ifup eth0 to get networking. Abiword shows grey screen. No shutdown button (is there one yet?). No sound </td>
<td> [[User:theothermike|theothermike]] <br>6 Jan 2007 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td> olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-298-20070308_1141-devel_ext3.img </td>
<td> Build 3170 </td>
<td> MacBook Pro 15" 2.16Ghz Intel Core2Duo, 2GB RAM </td>
<td> Runs; manual ifup eth0 still necessary. Unknown on sound.</td>
<td> [[User:ScottSwanson|ScottSwanson]] <br>8 Mar 2007 </td>
</tr>

</table>

=== VMWare on Windows ===

<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><th> Build Name </th><th> VMware Version </th><th> System Info </th><th> Description </th><th> username</th></tr>

<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-185-20061117_2030-devel_ext3.img</td>
<td> Player 1.0.3 build-34682 </td>
<td> Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T 3,2 GHz P4 1GB Ram, Windows XP SP2 </td>
<td> Booted into GUI successfully, no sound, mouse accelerate very high </td>
<td> Henubis Nov 22. 2006 </td></tr>

<tr><td>olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-406-20070507_2141-devel_ext3.img</td>
<td> Workstation 6.0.0 build-45731 </td>
<td> Dell Precision 380 2 GHz P4 2GB Ram, Windows Server 2003 SP1 </td>
<td> Booted into GUI successfully, no sound, no networking </td>
<td> Gauravl June 22 2007 </td></tr>

</table>

=== VMWare on Mac OSX ===

<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><th> Build Name </th><th> VMware Version </th><th> System Info </th><th> Description </th><th> username</th></tr>

<tr><td>olpc-build182.vmdk</td>
<td> VMWare beta for Mac OsX </td>
<td> Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T 3,2 GHz P4 1GB Ram, Windows XP SP2 </td>
<td> Booted into GUI successfully, mouse accelerate very high. Most importantly, the screen soze was only 640x480, impossible to use e-toys. </td>
<td> Alexandre Van de Sande, january 11, 2007 </td></tr>
</table>

== Images on a USB disk ==

<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><th> Build Name </th><th> QEmu Version </th><th> System Info </th><th> Description </th><th> username</th></tr>

<tr><th> enter details here </th><th> </th><th> </th><th> </th><th> </th></tr>
</table>


== Images with the on-board NAND flash on OLPC hardware ==

<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<th> Build Name </th>
<th> System Info </th>
<th> Description </th>
<th> Username </th>
</tr>
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<td>Running Build 231 on two OLPC laptops.</td>
<td> </td>
<td>No way to show camera in full-screen mode. This feature should be re-instated. Instead the new screen capture feature works but causes the captured shots to be almost illegible - colours run.<br>
Network Neighbourhood - Group Chat works fine but have not had ANY success sharing any other activity. Perhaps this is not yet developed ? <br> Quite stable - has never crashed but performance is very very slow.</td>
<td>David Chatterton 14 Jan 2007</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Build 239_B21 on OLPC B-1 </td>
<td> B-1 Hardware </td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Overall impression of Build 239: Sluggy but stable.</li>
<li>Hardware: Mouse pointer is quite difficult to position, jumps around quite often. Keyboard LED are mostly useless as they do not really light the keyboard. Maybe better to move them to top of screen as with Lenovo?</li>
<li>Camera activity: Cool. Seems though that you can only fill the picture bar with 8 pix, after that it FIFOs out, no arrows. Could be a problem when activity is shared with a few olpc and the bar fills fast.</li>
<li>Chat Activity: Hard to criticise with just one OLPC ;-)</li>
<li>Text Activity: Still supports too much non-open file formats. Word Doc is IMHO patent-encumbered. It should only support ODT, HTML and maybe RTF.</li>
<li>RSS Activity: Does not really work. Clicking on "Full entry" does not open the web page. Maybe I don't understand how it is supposed to work though.</li>
<li>eToys Activity: No time to play with it, takes ages to load.</li>
<li>Browser activity: I reconfigured fontsize to 8pt for fixed and 10pt for variable, now Slashdot.org looks acceptable. The tabbing feature really seems to be just a bokmark collection, correct?</li>
<li>Memory Activity: I liked the older version better, or more precise, my kids liked the older version better. The new version relies too much on color and is not really playable in transflective mode.</li>
<li>TamTam activity: Simply rocks.</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td> Jan (dot) Wildeboer (at) redhat (dot) com </td>
</tr>
</table>

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QEMU on Linux

Build Name QEmu Version System Info Description username
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-385-20070406_2335-ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Linux Mandriva 2007.0, Toshiba Satellite P100, Core Duo T2300 1.66 GHz, 512M RAM Boots fine and smooth. No sound (might need to preload libaoss on qemu). Network worked after running dhclient in a root shell. Manuel Aguilar. May 26, 2007
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-422-20070514_1555-devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2
kqemu-1.3.0-1 + kqemu-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948		 Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB Runs. No sound. It looks like the ui spec changed, and some activities are still catching up. MitchellNCharity 2007.05.15
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-385-20070406_2335-ext3.img qemu 0.8.2
kqemu-1.3.0-1 + kqemu-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948		 Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB Works fine with kqemu. Slow without it. Works: network. Doesn't work: sound. MitchellNCharity 2007.05.15
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-385-20070406_2314-devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), AMD Athlon mumble, 1GB X startup fails. So "stable" devel_ext3 fails, plain ext3 works. MitchellNCharity 2007.05.15
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-318-20070318_1945-devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Debian unstable (powerpc), iBook G4 1.3GHz 512MB RAM Boots OK; Avahi and HAL fail to start; keyboard, mouse and sound work fine; GUI doesn't start but the only thing you can see on tty7 is a black background and an 'x' mouse coursor and when you switch to tty1, it switches back to tty7 after a while, eventually I only managed to start X with startx and got twm running 2007.03.19
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Debian testing (Etch), AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 1GB RAM boots ok, works very slowly, no keyboard input, hangs unexpectedly jan 2007.03.02
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img qemu 0.9 Ubuntu 6.06.1 1GB RAM (qemu had 512MB) works fine, but could not network / browse internet / did not auto-configure networking... You definitely need to put some hint balloons in that GUI, it's hard to understand what's what towsonu2003, 2007.02.17
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-239-20070118_1416-devel_ext3.img.bz2 qeumu 0.8.0 Ubuntu 6.06LTS, Linux 2.6.15-27-386, Centrino 1280MB RAM when Qemu goes graphical, freezes with weird screen garbage ShawnMurphy, 2007.01.19
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-239-20070118_1416-devel_ext3.img.bz2 qeumu 0.6.0-2mdk Mandrake 10.1, Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk, Athlon XP 2100+, 1536MB RAM when Qemu goes graphical, freezes with weird screen garbage ShawnMurphy, 2007.01.19
build 217 20070105_1724 devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Debian unstable, Athlon XP 2400+, 512MB RAM Linux 2.6.18.2 (vanilla) Boots fine, but very slow. Apps work, except for abiword which just has a gray screen (same color as frame). No IP, but 'dhclient' fixes that. Changing 'onboot=yes' doesn't help. Got some kernel problems (IRQ4?) when starting vi/nano though, see http://rootshell.be/~ludoa/messages for my logfile & more info. Installed kqemu, modprobe'd it, but -kernel-kqemu gives a kernel panic, see rootshell.be/~ludoa/olpc_qemu_with_kqemu.png LudoA, 2007.01.06
build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft - x86_64 Hangs on boot. Adding apm=off to kernel boot params in grub fixes this. It then boots Sugar (the UI), but no keyboard or mouse. CTRL-3 and then modprobe i8042 fixes this. Sugar works fine, but is quite slow. Also, no sound (even with qemu -soundhw all). Networking works fine. Will try to get qemu accelerator working in the future to improve performance. 2007.01.05
build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.2 (-std-vga) Ununtu 6.06 Boots into GUI, asks for nickname and then no keyboard or mouse. The modprobe i8042 trick did not work until I told qemu to use a standard vga output (-std-vga). Still pretty slow. I have tried to get networking or sound going yet. Jeff Waddell 2007.01.04
build-193 20061203_1727 devel_ext3.img qemu 0.8.1-1 (-soundhw all -hda) Debian etch (testing) Boots into GUI, but no keyboard or mouse before "modprobe i8042" several times (!) on the serial console (Ctrl-Alt-3). No networking or sound, slow.
build-183 20061116_1824 devel_ext3.img Qemu 0.8.1, from Debian's repository Acer Aspire AMD 1.8 Ghz 1GB RAM; Debian etch (testing); Linux 2.6.17-2-k7; Boots into the GUI and works fine. Is not 100% responsive, but it's expected. To be able to view the entire eToys screen, had to edit the Grub boot entry and change the display size to vga=0x317 To_be_created
build-182 20061114_2135 devel_ext3.img Qemu 0.6.2 from Debian Sarge Dual-cpu AMD Athlon MP, 1GHz; Debian Sarge; 2.6.11-1-k7-smp Boots into GUI and works OK, using apm=off. Slow. Had to edit Grub boot entry; the image already handled the suggested xorg.conf fix. John Gilmore
build-182 20061114_2117 ext3.img(.bz2) Qemu 0.8.2 + kqemu 1.3.0pre9 2.4.33.3 Athlon XP 2000+ 786 RAM; Slackware 11.0; Linux 2.4.33.3; Boot into GUI ok, the system works fine and fast darkmagus
build 185 and 197 QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre9 AMD AthlonXP 3000+ 2.16 GHz 512MB RAM, Suse 10.1 Booted into GUI successfully，keyboard and mouse work, no sound - good with qemu accelerator Tim UK. 19 Dec 2006

QEMU on Windows

See Using QEMU on Windows XP instructions and Emulating the XO.

Build Name QEmu Version Windows System Description username
build-276-20070228_1834-devel_ext3.img Qemu 20070114-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Pentium 4 2.6GHz, 512Mb RAM, XP Pro SP2 Boots OK, but the sign-in screen does not let you select an image and therefore will not let you proceed. Apparently, the camera module imports OK but won't return a valid pixmap? Worked around it by commenting out the part of /usr/share/sugar/shell/intro/intro.py that tries to import the glive module. This gives a file button you can click to select an image, but it will not let you browse to files... I had to find an image filename in the system and manually type it in (/usr/share/icons/olpc/16x16/stock/emoticons/stock-smiley-1.png). This gets me past the opening screen to the sugar shell. Camera, abiword, memosono, and slideshow fail to launch. Blockparty, Groupchat, PenguinTV, etoys, web, and tamtam seem to work, although there is of course no sound in any application. Using yum to install the full version of vim fails due to lack of space in the image. —Leejc 00:13, 1 March 2007 (EST)
build-239-20070118_1355-ext3.img Qemu 20070114-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz, 1GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 Seems to boot and work well, no control problems, but does not run DHCP on startup, easily worked around by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1, logging in as root, and running dhclient then returning with Ctrl-Alt-F7. Seems a little slower than running the same image under VMWare Player on Linux on an Athlon64 3200+, but this only really seems to affect boot speed. Looks nice! Unfortunately the default save location is "File System" which crashes AbiWord on saving, and loading files from the "OLPC" folder doesn't appear to work either (again apparent crash). --RP 16:34, 31 January 2007 (CST)
build-231-20070113_0023-ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Celeron M 1.60GHz, 1GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 No problems booting, no problems with mouse or keyboard (didn't need to use modprobe at all). Network worked fine after applying the documented fix. However, after getting the network running, experienced the same problem below with repeated '1's appearing in an input text field (actually Google's search field) immediately afterwards. The system's speed is a little slower than what normally might be expected, but not too bad. No problems starting/using applications (I'm editing this page using the emulator!) --Dox 04:45, 15 January 2007 (EST)
build-193-20061203_1714-ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Dell Precision M70 Laptop, Pentium M 2.27 GHz, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 Boots fine and into GUI, had to use modprobe twice to get keyboard/mouse to work. Network worked after fix. Works fine except the frame around the edge is very slow to appear. Sam
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Intel 2.6 GHz dualcore, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 had to use ctrl-alt-3 (not 1) to bring up shell and ctrl-alt-1 (not 7) to bring back gui. had to modprobe 6 times to get mouse and keyboard to run. gui works ok and fast. tamtam looks garbled. martsch
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2-windows, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Intel 2.16 GHz, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 Same mouse and keyboard issue. Used the "modprobe i8042" fix but it ctrl-alt-1 and ctrl-alt-2 do not work so I could not switch back from ctrl-alt-3 after modprobe. flatwethat
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Intel 2.66 GHz, 2GB RAM, XP Pro SP2 Same mouse and keyboard issue. Used the "modprobe i8042" fix but it needed to be run three times before OK. Then when input text field is given focus it prints 11111111111111111... until the delete key is hit. After deleting the input, the input text field works as expected. illations
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Celeron M 1.60 GHz, 500MB RAM, XP home SP2 Mouse and keyboard do not work as reported below but I used the "modprobe i8042" fix listed in the Linux feedback above and it works OK James
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Pentium 4 3.02 GHz, 1GB RAM, XP SP2 Mouse and keyboard do not work Aaron
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 HP Pavillion dv5000 laptop,1.8Ghz, 1gb ram, XP MCE SP2 mouse and keyboard don't work anger2headshot
build-192 20061201_1843 devel_ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Fujitsu Siemens 3,2 Ghz 1 Gb RAM, XP SP2 keyboard and mouse do not work, nothing really possible Henubis DEC 3, 2006
build-185 20061117_2030 devel_ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Falcon Mach V AMD Athlon64 3200, 2 GHz 1GB RAM, XP SP2 keyboard and mouse OK, no network or sound. (network worked converted to VMWare Player). I updated instructions -- Skierpage 19:06, 3 December 2006 (EST)
59-20060808_1153 ext3.img QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Dell Latitude D600 1.5GHz 512MB RAM, XP SP2 Booted into GUI successfully --Tomhannen 21:33, 17 November 2006 (EST)
olpc-redhat stream-development devel_ext3.img QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Lenovo AMD Athlon(tm)XP 3000+ 2.16 GHz 512MB RAM, XP SP2 Booted into GUI successfully，keyboard and mouse do not work --User:wonder from xi‘an，china 12:33, 7 December 2006 (EST)
build-185 20061117_2000 ext3.img QEmu 0.8.2 kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Dell Latitude D600 1.5GHz 512MB RAM, XP SP2 Booted into GUI successfully, but had to [do this] to get a network connection --Tomhannen 10:35, 7 December 2006 (EST)
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 HP Compaq, 1 Gb RAM, XP SP2 keyboard and mouse did not work, "modprobe i8042" fix couldn't load module at first - but repeatedly running the modprobe command (quickly) eventually succeeded and now it works ok CNS Jan 2, 2007
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img QEMU 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 AMD Athlon XP 3200+, 1GB Ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, Windows XP SP2 Booted into GUI successfully, keyboard and mouse seemed broken but the issue was resolved used the 'modprobe' fix mentioned above. Slightly slow and the frame kept popping up at inconvenient points. Also after fixing keyboard issue and after enabling network access the first textbox I entered began to fill up with the character 1 and did not stop until I pressed something else on the keyboard. I expect this has something to do with the switching screen procedures common to each scenario. Anon. Jan 02. 2007
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.7 GHz 512MB RAM, XP Pro SP1 As above keyboard and mouse did not work but repeated "modprobe i8042" eventually worked (it's Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the GUI once the module has loaded). Also had to follow instructions as linked to in feedback above to get a network connection and I too found the textbox filling with 1s. tom. Jan 2, 2007
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Intel P4 3GHz 512MB RAM, XP Pro SP2 Got the mouse and keyboard working with:
ctrl+alt+3, login as "root", enter "modprobe i8042", enter, ctrl+alt+1
Got the network connected as per the instructions. Obviously the OS is a work in progress so a few little niggles but it's quick enough and looks good.		 Tim. Jan 2, 2007
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 AMD X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 2048MB RAM, Vista RC2 Build 5744Problem and solution the same as above. Just wanted to say it's running on Vista RC2 ACluk90. Jan 2, 2007
build-193 20061203_1714 ext3.img Qemu 0.8.2, kqemu-1.3.0pre9 Dell Inspiron, 512 MB RAM, XP SP2The usual (had to use keyboard, mouse, and networking fixes). 7-Zip said the first two images I downloaded were corrupt (olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-193-20061203_1714-ext3.img.bz2 and olpc-redhat-stream-development-ext3.img.bz2). Loved the interface. Great use of screenspace, etc. Anon. Jan 3, 2007

QEMU on MacOS X

Build Name QEmu Version System Info Description username
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-166-20061110_1609-ext3.img Q 0.8.1 MacBook 13" Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM Boots into GUI, a bit sluggish response Calyth
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-185-20061117_2030-devel_ext3.img Q 0.8.1 MacBook 13" Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM Same feel as build 166 documented above Calyth


Parallels on MacOS X


Build Name Parallels Version System Info Description username
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-185-20061117_2030-devel_ext3.img Build 1970 MacBook 13" 2Ghz Intel Core2Duo, 1GB RAM Runs well, no networking or sound - perhaps configuration of Parallels? mpesce
1 Dec 2006
olpc-redhat-stream-development-devel_ext3.img.bz2 (build 206) Build 1898 MacBook 13" 1,83Ghz Intel CoreDuo, 1,256GB RAM Runs but would not start GUI; fbdev blinks and keeps respawning wooky
1 Jan 2007
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-217-20070105_1724-devel_ext3.img Build 3094 MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.33Ghz Intel Core2Duo, 2GB RAM Runs ok. Had to manually run ifup eth0 to get networking. Abiword shows grey screen. No shutdown button (is there one yet?). No sound theothermike
6 Jan 2007
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-298-20070308_1141-devel_ext3.img Build 3170 MacBook Pro 15" 2.16Ghz Intel Core2Duo, 2GB RAM Runs; manual ifup eth0 still necessary. Unknown on sound. ScottSwanson
8 Mar 2007

VMWare on Windows

Build Name VMware Version System Info Description username
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-185-20061117_2030-devel_ext3.img Player 1.0.3 build-34682 Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T 3,2 GHz P4 1GB Ram, Windows XP SP2 Booted into GUI successfully, no sound, mouse accelerate very high Henubis Nov 22. 2006
olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-406-20070507_2141-devel_ext3.img Workstation 6.0.0 build-45731 Dell Precision 380 2 GHz P4 2GB Ram, Windows Server 2003 SP1 Booted into GUI successfully, no sound, no networking Gauravl June 22 2007

VMWare on Mac OSX

Build Name VMware Version System Info Description username
olpc-build182.vmdk VMWare beta for Mac OsX Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T 3,2 GHz P4 1GB Ram, Windows XP SP2 Booted into GUI successfully, mouse accelerate very high. Most importantly, the screen soze was only 640x480, impossible to use e-toys. Alexandre Van de Sande, january 11, 2007

Images on a USB disk

Build Name QEmu Version System Info Description username
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Images with the on-board NAND flash on OLPC hardware

Build Name System Info Description Username
Running Build 231 on two OLPC laptops. No way to show camera in full-screen mode. This feature should be re-instated. Instead the new screen capture feature works but causes the captured shots to be almost illegible - colours run.
Network Neighbourhood - Group Chat works fine but have not had ANY success sharing any other activity. Perhaps this is not yet developed ?
Quite stable - has never crashed but performance is very very slow.		 David Chatterton 14 Jan 2007
Build 239_B21 on OLPC B-1 B-1 Hardware
  • Overall impression of Build 239: Sluggy but stable.
  • Hardware: Mouse pointer is quite difficult to position, jumps around quite often. Keyboard LED are mostly useless as they do not really light the keyboard. Maybe better to move them to top of screen as with Lenovo?
  • Camera activity: Cool. Seems though that you can only fill the picture bar with 8 pix, after that it FIFOs out, no arrows. Could be a problem when activity is shared with a few olpc and the bar fills fast.
  • Chat Activity: Hard to criticise with just one OLPC ;-)
  • Text Activity: Still supports too much non-open file formats. Word Doc is IMHO patent-encumbered. It should only support ODT, HTML and maybe RTF.
  • RSS Activity: Does not really work. Clicking on "Full entry" does not open the web page. Maybe I don't understand how it is supposed to work though.
  • eToys Activity: No time to play with it, takes ages to load.
  • Browser activity: I reconfigured fontsize to 8pt for fixed and 10pt for variable, now Slashdot.org looks acceptable. The tabbing feature really seems to be just a bokmark collection, correct?
  • Memory Activity: I liked the older version better, or more precise, my kids liked the older version better. The new version relies too much on color and is not really playable in transflective mode.
  • TamTam activity: Simply rocks.
 Jan (dot) Wildeboer (at) redhat (dot) com
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