[sf-lug] hello, emulating olpc xo-1

[Matt Price]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 22:22 -0800, jim stockford wrote:
> i ordered a g1g1 for myself. susanna, my
> g'friend, ordered two for her granddaughters,
> who are 7 and 4.5. when the machines get
> here, we'll be looking for someone to play.
> you can bet i'll announce the machines'
> arrivals.
> 
excellent!  mika's 8 so maybe they'll get along...

m


> 
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Matt Price wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to the SF area and probably should have signed up for this list
> > long ago, but was finally moved to do so by Sameer Verma when I asked a
> > olpc-related question on the sugar list.  So here it is again, revised 
> > a
> > bit:
> >
> > My daughter is getting an xo-1 for xmas via g1g1.  I really want this 
> > to
> > be the best possible experience for her, so i've been experimenting 
> > with
> > various emulators running on my own dell d820 laptop, running a mostly
> > up-to-date Ubuntu Gutsy.  In particular, I want to fool around with
> > collaboration to see how that will work, and also to be sure that when
> > the machine shows up, there will be someone else for Mika to 
> > collaborate
> > with.  It's in collaboration that I've had the most trouble and that's
> > what I want to talk about.
> >
> > I've tried a bunch of different methods for pretending to be an xo-1;
> > none work perfectly, but i'm hoping that someone else outthere has had
> > better luck.  here's what I've seen:
> >
> > 1) use jani monoses' package archive for ubuntu,
> > https://edge.launchpad.net/~jani/+archive .  This mostly works great --
> > follow instructions on jani's blog, http://janimo.blogspot.com/ .  I 
> > can
> > pretty easily get two xo-1 instances running side-by-side; they can
> > recognize each other and make friends, and also chat, but no other
> > collaborative activities work -- e.g., not in paint  or write, the two
> > most important i'd think.  I especially want write colaboration to 
> > work,
> > and jani suggested the problem might lie with the fact that the
> > collaboration code is not included in the ubuntu packages of abiword.
> > So I tried other methods...
> >
> >
> > 2) use the standard downloadable qemu images from laptop.org.  Images
> > downloaded fine, and after fiddling a bit to get kqemu to work I cna
> > load the images pretty easily with :
> > qemu -m 256 -kernel-kqemu -soundhw es1370 -net user -net \
> > nic,model=rtl8139 -hda olpc-qemu-image-mika.img
> >
> > however, there's no networking, so there's no way for me to test
> > collaboration.  There are various guides for getting qemu networking to
> > work, but I haven't had any luck with any of them so far.  they all 
> > also
> > tend to extend beyond the reach of my competence.  If someone can guide
> > me through that process, i'd probably be pretty happy...
> >
> > 3) use VMWare instead.  I followed the olpc wiki instructions on using
> > vmware and managed to get that working as well using the mostrecent
> > vmware server 1.0.4 -- sort of.  After fiddling around a bit to get
> > vmware working, I downloaded the relevant vmware image, but couldn't
> > make it boot into x -- several xorg modules were missing, among them 
> > dri
> > and glx, i believe.  Anyway, figured that might be an issue with the
> > particular image version, so I tried converting the functional qemu
> > image to vmdk using
> > qemu-img convert my-image.img -O vmdk my-image.vmdk
> > but attempts to add this image to my virtual machine merely caused
> > vmware to crash.  so again, i wasn't able to test the collaboration
> > facilities.
> >
> > So all this leaves me a little discouraged, and i'm hoping for a little
> > guidance from the community.  Is there anyone out there who has a 
> > really
> > solidly-working xo-1 emulation working on a ubuntu system?  if so, 
> > would
> > you be willing to share your secrets with me?
> >
> > Anyway, thanks a lot, look forward to more contact sometime,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Matt Price
> > matt.price at utoronto.ca
> >
> >
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Matt Price
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