Emulating the XO/Quick Start/Mac

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Installing QEMU for MacOS-X

You should already have an XO build image.

The port of Qemu for MacOSX is called Q and can be found in kju-app.org. Download and install Q.app stable version 0.9.0a89. Other builds are here: kberg.ch/q/builds/

Setting up

Q.app

Click on the (+) button to create a new guest: 

Create new Guest:              Name:  OLPC
                   Operating System:  Q Standard Guest
                -- click (Create PC) --

Proceed to configure its preferences: 

 General Prefs | SMB Filessharing:  No file sharing
Hardware Prefs |        Hard disk:  Select your unzipped build image
Advanced Prefs |   QEMU Arguments:  -redir tcp:2222::22
                -- click (Create PC) --

For all QEMU Arguments, see Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start. At the time of writing, it e.g. mentions -net user -net nic,model=rtl8139 as well - are those not needed on a Mac?? Anyhow, they can change/evolve, so please check the Quick Start page for the latest recommended arguments!

From the arguments on the Quick Start page, you also want these hardware prefs:

  • RAM: 256 MB
  • Sound card: ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES 1370
  • Network card: rtl8139 PCI network adapter (not sure what "-net user" is for)

Also no CD-ROM? --IanOsgood 11:24, 15 November 2007 (EST)


Starting OLPC Environment

Double click on the newly created "OLPC" to launch a window for it.

NOTE
what follows may not be required. If you happen to do with or without it, please let us know in the discussion page (signing it) so this section can be updated accordingly.
Grub start.png

— press "space" to get into GRUB


Grub choose qemu.png

— choose "OLPC for Qemu Target",

— press "e" to edit commands,

Grub choose the line.png

— select "kernel" line, and press "e"


Grub edit the line.png

— add "single" option at the end of the line

— hit "return", then "b" to boot

Advanced

You may encounter some issues supporting USB devices.

You can run Q.app from the command line:

$ /Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/i386-softmmu.app/Contents/MacOS/i386-softmmu -hda olpc/olpc-redhat-stream-development-devel_ext3.img -serial stdio

See comment above / Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start for checking on all necessary qemu Q.app arguments.

Notes

Should we mention http://www.kju-app.org/kju/ ? MitchellNCharity 00:39, 14 November 2007 (EST)

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