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If for some reason the pre-converted VMWare/VirtualBox images are not appropriate for you (for instance because you want a release that is not provided as a VMWare image), you can follow these instructions to create your own. We don't actually do this ourselves (we have a script that does the operations automatically), but here are the basic steps involved...
- Download an official devel-ext3 image (<thefile>.img.bz2)
- bunzip2 <thefile>.img.bz2
- use the qemu-img function from Qemu to convert the image into a vmdk file
- qemu-img convert <thefile>.img -O vmdk <thefile>.vmdk
Now create a new VMWare "Machine" (if you have a commercial VMWare client):
- "New Virtual Machine", "Typical", OS Type "Other Linux 2.6.x kernel"
- Network Address Translation (NAT) networking (recommended, try others if you like)
- Disk configuration (irrelevant, we're going to overwrite it)
If you do not have a commercial VMWare client, you can manually create an olpc.vmx file:
#!/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.
Edit "Machine" Settings:
- Memory 512MB (recommended for development work, 256 more closely simulates an XO)
- Remove the auto-generated hard-disk
- Add a new hard disk, "Existing Disk Image", choose <thfile>.vmdk
- Ensure that audio is enabled
You should now be able to work with the image in VMWare