[svlug] Virtual OLPC?

[Sameer Verma]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Larry Colen wrote:
>   
>> Is there a virtual OLPC that can be downloaded? Or at least the aps
>> run on a regular linux box?
>>
>> It should be pretty trivial to set up. I expect that that is how the 
>> systems were developed.
>>
>>     
>
> You can look here for build instructions for various distros:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Installing_Sugar
>
> I haven't tried it myself (yet), but it looks interesting.
>
> 	-brian
>
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You could use virtual machines via qemu, vmware and virtualbox. I've 
used qemu and vmware and it works well. Additionally, you could try to 
boot off the live CD, but that image hasn't been updated in a while. 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd

Sameer

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