[IAEP] journal in ubuntu

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 23.12.2008, at 03:26, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de 
>> > wrote:
>>> On 22.12.2008, at 23:24, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 22.12.2008, at 22:20, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> workaround anywhere.
>
>>>>> The workaround is to substitute another kernel to the XO disk  
>>>>> image:
>>
>>>> http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2008/12/emulating-latest-stable-olpc-xo.html
>>
>> Do you mean http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/VMWare-8.2-767-bf.zip? The
>> image file is Virtual Disk-flat.vmdk, right?
>>
>>> To use it in Qemu you
>>> would have to change the xorg config to use the vesa driver, not the
>>> vmware one.
>>
>> How? Oh, I see the first step. qemu-img for converting formats. Let's
>> get all this into the Wiki, shall we?
>
> OK, I made it into a qcow2 file, which boots to the command line and
> stops, and has too big a window. I assume that there are a few further
> steps missing in the conversion.


Don't know.  Alternatively someone could redo the steps I outlined  
using Qemu rather than VMWare.

- Bert -