Ubuntu on Qemu

I finally have been successfully install Ubuntu 7.10 on my SuSE linux on Qemu (A powerful Machine Emulator), it looks nice, the drawback of Ubuntu in my opinion is that it need a connection to internet to install packages which not always available.

Here are the steps i do to install it on Qemu:

1- First, make sure that you have Qemu installed, If not, for linux users get qemu binaries from QEMU site http://bellard.org/qemu/ then just extract it. In extracted folder you should find the qemu binaries.

2- Then, we make the image file that Ubuntu will be installed on, Ubuntu will see it as it's the PC hard disk. we make this by qemu-img command.

#qemu-img create ubuntu.img -f qcow2 4G

This will make a 4GBytes image named ubuntu.img

Now, we are ready to install Ubuntu on Qemu, if you have the Ubuntu CD you run the next command

#qemu -m 256 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d ubuntu.img

This command make qemu boot from the CDROM and with RAM 256MB, if you have iso file for ubuntu replace /dev/cdrom by your iso file

The installer will appear, go with the steps of installer. after the installation finish, remove the CD and boot from the image by the command

#qemu -m 256 -boot a ubuntu.img

This will make qemu boot from the harddisk A represented by ubuntu.img with memory 256MBytes.

Keep in mind that the installation take longer time than normal installion, my installation took 4 hours on a 2.6GHz PC.

See the picture, Ubuntu 7.10 running in Qemu on my SuSE 10.1

Jobs for Open Source @ Nokia

Nokia announced that it wants Embedded Linux/Open Source Developers after the great success that it had from the N series linux based internet tablets(N770, N800, N810, N810 WiMax
Edition), that now run Linux Kernel 2.6 having Skype, Firefox core MicroB Engine, Messengers, Video Chat, PDF reader, GPS with Open Source Mapper, Bluetooth, WiFi , FM radio, all Open source software.

The positions and Qualifications are given on Maemo (Nokia linux Distribution) website:

http://maemo.org/news/jobs/

See specially this position which i really like its sound very much:

Embedded Linux Kernel Developer @ Nokia

Aply if you see that you have what they wants.

Good Luck

Don't miss up with GPL

I've been pleased when i saw this article about sue 2 companies as they violates GPL license.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8588416581.html

The interesting part that they missed up with BusyBox Open Source project, when i read this article i smiled as i remembered what BusyBox developers name their project:

BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

http://www.busybox.net/about.html

And read what Rob Landley, a developer of BusyBox said about this, explaining GPL in few words:

"We let companies do what they like with BusyBox on their hardware, and what we asked in return was that they let us reproduce what they've done with BusyBox on our hardware. That's the deal embodied in the GPL."

Welcome

Welcome to my blog, here i will write on some of my favorite subjects and sciences that i'm interested in like linux and embedded linux as my job is an embedded software engineer, Electromagnetics my studying field. and other topics that may not related to any thing above. we will see.

That's all for now. But more will be posted soon.