<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Wade Brainerd <<a href="mailto:wadetb@gmail.com">wadetb@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Or, if anyone would like to step up to try to do this for SoaS, the source code to the installer is located at: <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/wadeb/wininstall/.git/" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/wadeb/wininstall/.git/</a> There may be some issues installing the QEMU accelerator module under Vista. Further discussion of the VM topic is here: <a href="http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/114" target="_blank">http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/114</a> We are almost there - the SoaS team is producing .vmdk files, we just need to set up the packaging and testing (and to finally choose a virtualization software). </blockquote><div> I'll be happy to repackage the binaries, but I'd rather not start until we decide on a virtualization platform. It's very important to make these sort of decisions at the beginning, because most of the work (IMHO) will be getting the VM software to configure properly (as well as legal rights as with redistributing VMWare player if we decide to go that route). Here's a breakdown of the different popular VM products as I understand: <ul><li>VMWare Player: Robust and popular, but good integration is not available in the Free version unless one installs VMWare Server, which, while an excellent product, is too complicated for the average user. Moreover, it cannot be redistributed until one signs a legal agreement with VMWare and waits for it to come back countersigned :( </li><li>VirtualBox: Again, popular. As with above, for the functionality we'll have to use the non-FLOSS edition, but Sun has very liberal use agreements and the software can be configured with a great deal of simplicity. Has proper desktop integration (resizable windows that auto-update the display, pointer integration, USB support, etcetera) </li><li>QEMU: As it's been stated in other posts, QEMU is free but slow, and it's KQEMU acceleration drivers are poorly supported on Windows. </li></ul> </div></div> -- Luke Faraone <a href="http://luke.faraone.cc">http://luke.faraone.cc</a>