Emulating the XO/Mac

Virtual PC on Mac OS X (PowerPC)

Akauppi: The instructions above on preparing a 512MB boot disk, based on ...img.bz2 file apply. However, create a 1GB disk image in VPC, since it does not allow precisely 512MB.

TODO: system boots nicely, but the mouse remains unresponsive. Ideas???

John Palmieri advised:

Add this to /etc/X11/qemu-Xorg.conf and then copy qemu-Xorg.conf to Xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Startup Failure

VirtualPC 7.0.1 (041022) on a Quad G5 (PowerMac11,2) fails to boot from the LiveCD, neither as disk or from image. The following output post-bootloader was copied verbatim from the (virtual) screen:

  Booting 'OLPC Operating System SDK'

root (cd)
 Filesystem type is iso9660, using whole disk
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro quiet root=CDLABEL=OLPCRoot_build385_CD rootfstype=iso9
660 fastboot livecd selinux=0
   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1e2474]
initrd /boot/initrd
   [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fd37000, 0x2a888d bytes]

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.














Int 14: CR2 ffffbe47  err 00000002  EIP c0427b06  CS 00000060  flags 00000047
Stack: c0745fdc 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

▪ NeoAmsterdam^Talk_Edits 23:07, 18 May 2007 (EDT)