[maemo-developers] maemo through VMware

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On 6/20/07, quim.gil at nokia.com <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
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> It would be good to have al the maemo-through-VMware interested focused in a
> single direction. There is interest enough to make this happen in a reliable
> way but some coordination is needed.
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> Nokia is not in the best position to lead this even if we support the idea
> and want to see it happening. The reason is that Nokia checks all the
> software released in their products and offers a guarantee on them. Perhaps
> we can circunvent rules (to be analyzed) but the default setting would imply
> that Nokia would be stamping a seal on a whole Ubuntu distribution (read
> hundreds of packages) which is totally out of the scope (and feasibility).
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> We are happy seeing an official maemo release inside a VMware envelop. If
> it's proven to work and be regularly maintained and supported we would give
> it officious treatment. With identified and reliable speakers we could help
> having the new versions in good shape right after a new maemo release.
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> It looks like all the ingredients are present already in the maemo
> community. With some images already out there, a placeholder like
> https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemovmware/ ,

They also have a qemu base image .. nice ! why didn't I know that

http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/