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Bibledit in OLPC emulation

At the Bibledit web site here go to Download, Installation procedure and find instructions for installing Bibledit on the OLPC. This was tested in the VMPlayer OLPC emulation (running OLPC build 625) and it was successful. We used the XO activity button at the Bibledit web site per the instructions. We did however do our own build of Bibledit so as to have the current version. The Bibledit build was done on a separate computer and then transfered to the OLPC emulation.

OLPC in an emulator

The B2 development machine we currently have will not run the latest OLPC builds so I have been attempting to get them running in an emulator. I decided to try all 3 emulators to see what issues there were with each one, the 3 being Qemu, VMPlayer and VirtualBox.

After doing the installs the launchers are put in various places. Qemu puts the launcher under Accessories, VMPlayer puts the launcher under Other and VirtualBox winds up in System Tools as Innotek VirtualBox. More detailed instructions are available for the emulations here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO. The following is not meant to be instructions but is a short collection of tips for each emulator that were either hard to find at the above website or were not at this website. Read the rest of this post…