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This document provides a short set of instructions on how to properly install and configure Maemo SDK Virtual Image for your machine, including networking issues.  
This document provides a short set of instructions on how to properly install and configure Maemo SDK Virtual Image for your machine, including networking issues.  
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=== Host hardware ===
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'''Host hardware'''
At least 2GB of RAM and an additional 15 GB of free hard disk space for Desktop image (2 GB for Server image) is required from the host machine.
At least 2GB of RAM and an additional 15 GB of free hard disk space for Desktop image (2 GB for Server image) is required from the host machine.
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=== Host operating system ===
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'''Host operating system'''
You can use Linuxes (Fedora and Debian-based Linuxes such as 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) on your host machine.
You can use Linuxes (Fedora and Debian-based Linuxes such as 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) on your host machine.
    
    
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=== Virtualization software ===
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'''Virtualization software'''
It is possible to use VMWare, VirtualBox or QEMU as a virtualisation environment. We strongly recommend you to use VMWare Player for some important reasons. At first, VMWare Player is free for other than the 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 the first 3.x versions may have problems maintaining SSH connections).
It is possible to use VMWare, VirtualBox or QEMU as a virtualisation environment. We strongly recommend you to use VMWare Player for some important reasons. At first, VMWare Player is free for other than the 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 the first 3.x versions may have problems maintaining SSH connections).
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For QEMU users, performance may be an issue. QEMU is a totally free virtualisation environment, but the performance is much worse than with VMWare or VirtualBox. Even with KQEMU QEMU Accelerator (that must be used to get a usable Maemo development environment), performance is not on the same level as with VMWare or VirtualBox.
For QEMU users, performance may be an issue. QEMU is a totally free virtualisation environment, but the performance is much worse than with VMWare or VirtualBox. Even with KQEMU QEMU Accelerator (that must be used to get a usable Maemo development environment), performance is not on the same level as with VMWare or VirtualBox.
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=== List of required software ===
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'''List of required software'''
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To be able to install and run Maemo SDK Virtual Image you need to have both 7-Zip uncompress tool and one of the supported virtualisation environments available.
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* [http://www.7-zip.org/download.html 7zip uncompress] to uncompress Maemo SDK Virtual Image distribution archive.
* [http://www.7-zip.org/download.html 7zip uncompress] to uncompress Maemo SDK Virtual Image distribution archive.

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