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Maemo SDK Virtual Images are a good option for those developers who do not want to spend time and effort to download, install and configure the Linux environment and all required tools for Maemo applications development. | Maemo SDK Virtual Images are a good option for those developers who do not want to spend time and effort to download, install and configure the Linux environment and all required tools for Maemo applications development. | ||
- | + | Especially Ubuntu Desktop based Maemo SDK Virtual Image is a very good choice to be used on Maemo development workshops and training sessions as it does not require any special configurations to be done for attendees´ machines. It significantly reduces the dependencies of host machine, such as installed operating system, other software and superuser privileges. All you need to do is to install the virtualization software of your choice to the host machine and deploy Maemo SDK Virtual Image for it. With this setup attendees can launch the virtualization environment, such as VMWare Player, as guest users without ever accessing host environment with administration privileges. Inside Maemo SDK Virtual Image users have, of course, full administration privileges to the Ubuntu and Maemo SDK environments. Don’t hesitate to use Maemo SDK Virtual Images: they were created to make Maemo application development a lot easier! | |
- | This document provides a short set of instructions | + | This document provides a short set of instructions how to properly install and configure Maemo SDK Virtual Image for your machine, including networking issues. |
=== Host hardware === | === Host hardware === | ||
- | + | From host machine is required at least 2GB of RAM and an additional 15 GB of free hard disk space for Desktop image (2 GB for Server image). | |
=== Host operating system === | === Host operating system === | ||
- | You can use Linuxes (Fedora and Debian-based Linuxes | + | You can use Linuxes (Fedora and Debian-based Linuxes like Debian, Ubuntu, and Kunbutu have been tested), Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 tested) or Mac OS X (Leopard and Snow Leopard tested) for your host machine. |
=== Virtualization software === | === Virtualization software === | ||
- | It is possible to use VMWare, VirtualBox or QEMU as | + | It is possible to use VMWare, VirtualBox or QEMU as virtualization environment. We strongly suggest you to use VMWare Player for some important reasons. At first, VMWare Player is free for other than Mac OS X environment. It provides good support for host-guest communication. With VMWare Player, the USB, parallel port, CD/DVD, storage disks and TCP/IP network work properly. However, free VMWare Player does not provide support for Mac OS X, but you can use other VMWare products in Mac OS X (for example, VMWare Fusion). For VMWare Player |
+ | 3.0 or 2.5 versions can be used (2.5 recommended as first 3.x versions may have problems maintaining SSH connections). | ||
- | For VirtualBox users | + | For VirtualBox users the functionality of free open source version is not enough but binary only version (PUEL licensed) needs to be used for Maemo SDK Virtual Images. Performance of the VirtualBox PUEL version is about the same as with VMWare environment but licensing allows usage only for personal and evaluation purposes. VirtualBox 3.x versions are recommended. |
- | For QEMU users | + | For QEMU users the performance may be an issue. QEMU is totally free virtualization environment but the performance is much worse than with VMWare or VirtualBox. Even with KQEMU QEMU Accelerator (that must be used to get usable Maemo development environment) performance is not at the same level as with VMWare or VirtualBox. |
=== List of required software === | === List of required software === |
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