Re: Doc pages (Was Re: Emulators (Was: Status of the OLPC))

2007-11-26 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/26/07 04:01, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Nov 24, 2007 3:17 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 11/24/07 13:56, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > >>> I'll post a blog how to easily get it running in VMWare for others. >> Why don't you just edit the wiki page instead? Despit

Doc pages (Was Re: Emulators (Was: Status of the OLPC))

2007-11-26 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Nov 24, 2007 3:17 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/24/07 13:56, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > > I'll post a blog how to easily get it running in VMWare for others. > > Why don't you just edit the wiki page instead? Despite the > scary notices about pages being maint

Re: Emulators (Was: Status of the OLPC)

2007-11-24 Thread NoiseEHC
I have updated this page with the setting which work for me: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Using_QEMU_on_Windows To tell you the truth, I do not remember why I had to disable the default LAN config... ps: I can be strange but for windows programmers it is not trivial to start apps with 1K long comma

Re: Emulators (Was: Status of the OLPC)

2007-11-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/24/07 13:56, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > Thanks for your help. Ok, that works in VMWare! And VMWare is much faster > than QEMU... QEMU is both a full CPU emulator (slow, but portable) or use a kernel module like VMWare to virtualize the CPU (fast, but only works on same CPU of the gues

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-24 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
ow what is what? - Original Message - From: "Bernardo Innocenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 4:33 AM Subject: Re: Status of the OLPC > On 11/23/07 19:24, Chad Z. Hower aka

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 19:24, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > Ok I assume "Latest" symlink it he one I want - but there are a bunch of img > files... any pointers on what they all are or which one I want? This one should be ok: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/latest/devel_ext3/olpc-

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:12 AM Subject: Re: Status of the OLPC > On 11/23/07 19:02, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: >> Yep. Sound is on. That was a separate bug, which I also logged and found >> in qemu... Maybe I need a newer build? >>

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 19:02, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > Yep. Sound is on. That was a separate bug, which I also logged and found in > qemu... Maybe I need a newer build? > > Pointers on getting latest builds as img files? They are (temporarily) available from here: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscot

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 18:55, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > VMWare Server is free - as is Virtual PC. Both are "for free", but not "free software". I tend to avoid depending on proprietary software as much as possible. Moreover, Virtual PC is not even available for my platform and VMware's kernel module

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Michael Burns'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Status of the OLPC > On 11/23/07 17:42, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > >> Well aside from what I reported - VMWare. I haven't dug,

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 17:42, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > Well aside from what I reported - VMWare. I haven't dug, but I made it, and > IIRC it just hung on boot... actually just tried again. It boots, I get to > an all white screen with a black x that I can move with the mouse And > then no where.

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Michael Burns'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:49 AM Subject: Re: Status of the OLPC > On 11/23/07 05:18, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > >> Will the emulation "Builds" be improved? Emulation seems a great way to >> involve more

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 05:18, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > Will the emulation "Builds" be improved? Emulation seems a great way to > involve more people, but we should have some better way. It seems many > builds don't work "out of the box" and most require a bit of tweaking to > run. Id like to see an o

RE: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
> Yes! There has been a 'Real Soon Now' mini-project to streamline and > improve the emulation builds. Sugar-jhbuild has been (and can be How can I get involved in this? > VMWare/Parrallels/VirtualPC/Bochs/QEMU is the best way we can reach > them. I won't say I know when these changes will land,

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Michael Burns
On Nov 23, 2007 2:18 AM, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If one wants to develop - what are the options for getting hardware > outside > of North America? As James mentioned, a sizable number of our developers are outside the US. The developer program is pretty nation-neutra

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
> Please log it in trac, see http://dev.laptop.org/ ... or describe it to > me in detail and I'll log it for you. I'll need the build number, the > image you're running, and the emulation environment. I logged it. Its Bochs, but I think it would happen anywhere. As soon as you add -soundhw optio

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:18:33PM +0300, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: > I ran into something simple - ie if no sound is present it goes into an > infinite half-reboot cycle. Now all devices might have audio and it was > because I was using Bochs, but it seems that it should handle that better.

RE: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-23 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
> Depends on what you mean by 'polishing'. :) Its certainly a variable term. :) Certainly a lot of work is done and quite impressive. I've only been on the list a few days, it just seemed to me that there are quite a few things left vs what the public website would lead to believe. I ran into so

Re: Status of the OLPC

2007-11-22 Thread Michael Burns
On Nov 22, 2007 2:18 PM, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read what is on the web of course - but from reading messages here > for > a few days and also playing with some builds it seems that there is still > a > fair bit of polishing left to do? Depends on what you mean

Status of the OLPC

2007-11-22 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
I've read what is on the web of course - but from reading messages here for a few days and also playing with some builds it seems that there is still a fair bit of polishing left to do? Is this a fair statement? Can anyone give me a brief report on the status? -- Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu "Programmi