[Bugs] #114 BLOC: Easy Mac Emulator for GPA teachers

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#114: Easy Mac Emulator for GPA teachers
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  Reporter:  CarolineM  |       Owner:  marcopg
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  blocker    |   Component:  SoaS   
Resolution:             |    Keywords:         
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Comment(by mungewell):

 A 'Free' solution?

 I have been experimenting using QEMU to run a SOAS variant direct from the
 file system within windows, the same technique might work for MAC as well
 (I don't have access to a MAC to test it though....)

 The scheme uses a application EEE
 (http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/eee/index.html) to wrap both QEMU binaries and
 startup batch file into a single exe which will decompress to temp
 directory and run from there.

 The batch file calls QEMU from the 'current directory' which is shared as
 the root drive.

 EEE is Free Pascal based, which I believe is available for MAC, as is
 QEMU.

 I have put exe and source here:
 http://www.mungewell.org/sugar-emulator/


 There are two problems:
 1) Network connectivity, the guest OS (Sugar) can see the internet but
 local network can not see guest OS. This may effect how collaboration
 might work.

 2) The guest OS image must be smaller than 502MBytes, as the QEMU fat
 technique only uses FAT16 with 8K sectors.

 Cheers,
 Mungewell.

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