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Maemo Development VMware Appliance: Making development on the N800 that much easier

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By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 at 7:20 PM

A VMware appliance built on Ubuntu which allows for easy Nokia N800 Internet Tablet console and GUI development,
including debugging in the nested Xephyr X server is available. This
appliance is targeted at the N800′s Maemo Bora 3.0 platform. This is of
particular interest to developers who are thinking about developing for
the N800 or wanting to do a quick port/recompile, and are unsure of or
not willing to go through the install procedures.

Source: OS News

You know I think I have VMware laying around on one of my external hard drives. Time to investigate! If you’re going to check this out then write a review: I’m talking to you ThoughtFix, Reggie, and Eugenia.

Taken from the description on VMware’s site:

This is a standard install of Ubuntu 6.10 server, with the following additions:

  • Base Gnome Desktop install (some components have been stripped out, e.g. Open Office, Evolution)
  • Apophis R4 Scratchbox installed to /scratchbox
  • Maemo 3.0 Bora SDK with SDK_ARMEL and SDK_X86 targets installed with CPU transparency
  • Xephyr X Server (for scratchbox debugging)
  • Eclipse 3.2.1 with PyDev and CDK extensions
  • SciTE Editor
  • Some other tools (vim, etc.)
  • VMWare Tools (autostart on login)
  • Some branding of the desktop

This VM can be used to quickly edit, compile, and test code targeted for the Maemo platform, which runs on Nokia N800 Internet Tablet devices.

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • ThoughtFix

    I’m trying, dude! The torrent is taking forever! :D

  • Imrahil

    Is this a Linux LiveCD?