[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] VMware image for development environment

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Andrew Barr wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 July 2006 18:49, Jason Mills wrote:
>> Unless there are strenuous objections, I'd be happy to build out the
>> Browser Appliance VM with relevant Nokia 770 / Scratchbox tools as a
>> starting point.
>>
>> -JMills (builder of BAVM 1.0.0)
> 
> I've got one up and (almost) running that is based on Debian sarge and the 
> Maemo 2.0 SDK. Scratchbox is installing now, as I type th
> is. It is, however, 
> based on QEMU and not VMware. It shouldn't be too hard to convert it if you 
> want VMware, though.
> 

I've got similar one but this time it is for colinux :) VMware is more 
heavy but has slight advantage in MS Windows that you can actually flash 
with linux flasher from vmware. It is slow and sometimes fails but 
mostly it works.

As for feedback and suggestions I would suggest to actually have two 
disk images - one normal debian/ubuntu with useful tools installed 
(mtd-utils, ..) and second one mounted to /scratchbox specific to maemo 
release. This one will change when moving to newer scratchbox/maemo and 
you can keep several such images if you wish but still use same basic 
system.

Frantisek