Virtualbox image for openmoko developing

NOTE

Updated: 16.Sep.2010. This was page about doing openmoko development under virtualized Ubuntu.
There was downloadable virtual image, but hosting site removed it, so this page is only for historial reason.

General info

Because I do not know who will use this I try to be extra verbose.

Virtualization is technique to use whole operating system like regular program. You can think it similar than word processing application. Let say you have gedit and text-file. Now you have VirtualBox and big image file. Start VirtualBox and load image and you are ready to go.

Prerequirements

VirtualBox (opensource: works on Linux, mac and windows)
Virtual image. I had one, but not anymore!

Installation

Unpack downloaded image file.
Start VirtualBox.
-From toolbar select 'new'. Click 'next'.
-Type any name you want, change OS-type linux/ubuntu (maybe this is only for icon).
-Select how much memory you give this virtual machine (512M is enough, but beware that your real system has memory too).
-Harddrive selection: Choose 'existing', Virtual media manager appears, choose 'add' (not 'new'), browse and select openmoko-base-dev.vdi.

Starting image

Choose virtual machine from left panel and push 'start'.

Usage

This Virtual Machine is Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) with openbox window manager installed.
It will autologin you and startX (you got one error message about xrdb). It has english locale and keyboard. username: user
password: 123456 (worlds worst password)

Press right mouse button on desktop and you got menu. Installed applications:
xterm
dillo (web browser)

It is fully working Ubuntu, I only try make small image file. You can install gnome or KDE, or you can install applications you want, like firefox, konsole, kdevelop.
It has 8G harddisk.
It has network, but you can't test it with ping (this is issue of VirtualBox).

Example run

Press right mouse on desktop and choose terminal.
There are file named hello.c
Run

. /usr/local/openmoko/arm/setup-env
arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc hello.c -o hello

And you got binary for Neo/Freerunner.

How I made this image

I made image using VirtualBox version 2.2.4 (but it can be runned any version
I installed ubuntu-commandline from this mini installer:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso

There are 8G ext4 mounted on / and 550M swap partition.
I have installed these packages for graphical:

sudo apt-get install openbox obconf xserver-xorg xinit mingetty

and these for Openmoko developing:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libglib2.0-dev ccache libxrender-dev intltool libgconf2-dev fakeroot libmokoui2-dev mtools
wget http://smartere.dk/openmoko/openmoko-toolchain_0.20080521-ubuntu6_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i openmoko-toolchain_0.20080521-ubuntu6_i386.deb

And new repositories for openmoko:

wget http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/freerunner/cross_compiling/opkg.conf
sudo cp opkg.conf /usr/local/openmoko/arm/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/etc/opkg.conf

auto-login:
In /etc/event.d/tty1 changed

exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 to
exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin user tty1

And end of ~/.bashrc

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
    startx
fi