Rusty's Bleeding Edge Page

For years it has been an LCA dream to put an OLPC in every attendee's registration bag, to give the project a development boost and inspire our attendees. We didn't quite get there, but we did get 100.

Jim Gettys and I announced at the keynote that we had a handful available, and we'd chosen names a random. We gave out 10 there, and leaked out another 60 to random people over the morning.

I fought hard for randomness, because we don't know who will make best use of them and I trust our attendees to pass them on if they can't do something wonderful. Some comments overheard since then have battered my faith, but I still hope that most people will make sure these XOs make a difference.

BTW, the following people were loved by the random number generator but still haven't been found (send them to Registration Desk):

1. Geoff O'Callaghan
2. Peter Karlsson
3. Brinley Craig
4. Bill Robertson
5. Stacy Gillett
6. Nicholas Nethercote
7. Techfatt Wong
8. Tim Josling

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You need to have lguest working for the lguest tutorial. We had a preparation BoF, and here's what we ended up with (thanks everyone!)

1. Get a 2.6.23 kernel
2. Make sure CONFIG_EXT2=y so you can read the root image.
3. Build your kernel with CONFIG_LGUEST=m (here are pre-built kernel trees for Debian unstable and Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy).)
4. Install the kernel on your machine.
5. cd into Documentation/lguest/ and type "make" to build the "lguest" launcher binary (you will need the zlib headers and static libraries).
6. Grab a simple root image I use the Xen-test tiny image.
7. Reboot into your 2.6.23 image.
8. sudo modprobe lg
9. Run the lguest launcher like so:

   sudo /usr/src/linux-2.6.23/Documentation/lguest/lguest --block=initrd-1.1-i386.img 128 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.14 root=/dev/lgba
   

10. If you see the "sh" prompt, you're ready for the tutorial!

There's also a Qemu image with instructions but you need to build outside and install updates into the image.

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