Submitted by 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.
I was going to do something like this myself. I don’t like having to install some five different SDKs on one Linux-installation, as typically none of them do it quite like the distribution intended, and creating all sorts of collisions
Ensures you get all the toolchain properly configured, and also stays completely sparate from your system.
Nice.
why don’t they add support to QEMU instead ?
it’s way more portable (due to being Free Software) than vmware, which even on Linux is probably only available on x86 and maybe 86_64 arch…
But who cares about Solaris, BeOS, RISCOS, AmigaOS…
Probably because if you use linux it’s a lesser effort to just install the sdk yourself. I think this package is mainly focused on windows / osx platforms (yeah, parallels can use vmware images) and for that kind of use, speed is of the essence.
But, if you feel like you’d like qemu support, you can always make one yourself and offer that.
I’ll probably get myself a N800 in the near future so this is a very nice additon.