Android Open Handset Developers Community

Hi all,
I just finalized my work to prepare a ready-to-work Linux VM with Eclipse and Android pre-installed (see below for details).

You can download the .torrent file ***URLs are hidden from guests, please register and login to view the hyperlink***

enjoy!

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Open Handset Developers VmWare Appliance 1.1

This is a Fedora8-based VmWare virtual appliance image from the Open Handset Developers
community (http://www.openhandsetdevelopers.com) for developing Java/Android applications.

Fedora (http://fedoraproject.org) is a Linux-based operating system that showcases
the latest in free and open source software.

This appliance has been designed for developers who want a simple, fast and easy way to
work or just to experiment with Java/Android platform taking advantage of a fresh
ready-to-use and powerful development environment. All the work to set up SDKs and IDE
packages within a Linux platform has been already carried out for you.

HOWTO
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Just download the torrent, open with the free VMware player
(http://www.vmware.com/products/player/) and start developing application for J2ME
and Android platforms with Eclipse IDE on Gnome!

Appliance details
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size: 1.51Gb (archive), 5.21Gb (extracted)
memory: 512 MB
hardisk: 8.0GB, dynamic
ethernet: bridged
vmwaretools: not installed

System details
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base: Fedora Core 8
linux kernel: 2.6.23.1-42.fc8
desktop: GNOME 2.20
resolution: 1152x864

Pre-installed developers tools
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java SDK: jdk-6u4 (http://sun.java.com/)
android SDK: android_sdk_linux_m3-rc37a (http://code.google.com/android/download.html)
Eclipse: 3.3.1.1 (Europa) with Andorid plug-in (http://www.eclipse.org/)

Network settings
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domain: openhandsetdevelopers.com.local
IP, DNS, default gateway: auto configuring on boot by DHCP
SSH shell access: enabled

Active accounts
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Username: android
password: android
Username: root
password: fedora


Visit website at http://www.openhandsetdevelopers.com for further support and information
on this distribution. If you have any trouble you can post a question here:
http://forum.openhandsetdevelopers.com

Enjoy.

Last updated: January 20th, 2008

Enjoy some screenshots...

torrent is actually not condivided by anyone....

M

Hi,
thank you for your warning.
Indeed, at the moment two peers are active (one it is mine ).

I encourage you to retry to download...
BR

Thanks a lot, I downloaded the VM!

...I tryed this with VMWare Server 1.7 on windows and it send me an error of version.

Which VMWare did you use to create this machine?

Thanks again.

M

Hi,
I used vmware workstation 6.0.2.
In any case, I can run the VM also with the vmware player 2.0.2 on Windows Vista.

Would it be possible to build a version that can mount yaffs2 file systems? I tried but was unsuccessful, of course I am not an expert or even close. Maybe someone else could have better luck.

Hi neoobs,
to build the YAFFS2 in the linux kernel you can try to follow the steps below.

- download sources for the linux kernel and extract it in /usr/src/linux
- download YAFFS2 from ***URLs are hidden from guests, please register and login to view the hyperlink***
- extract the package contents in any directory (eg. /home/YAFFS2)
- run the patch-ker.sh using the following command: *./patch-ker.sh c /usr/src/linux*
- go to /usr/linux and compile the linux kernel as follows:

make menuconfig

The following options should be enabled in the configuration file.

· Enabling MTD driver

Select Device driver

Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
Enable - Memory Technology Device (MTD) support.
Enable - MTD partitioning support.
Enable - Direct char device access to MTD device.
Enable - Caching block device access to MTD device.

· Enabling NAND flash driver

Select Device driver

Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
NAND Flash Driver
Enable - NAND Device Support.
Enable – Support for NAND flash simulator.

Exit the menuconfig utility after saving the configuration file

make clean
make
make modules
make modules_install
make install


Finally:
1. Reboot the system.
2. insmod yaffs2.ko (from the YAFFS2 Source directory path).

I tried that but failed miserably somewhere. I will try again with a new linux version I am installing. Does it matter what distro I use? or kernel?

Also Would it be possible if I can't get it to work that someone that knows how and can, can build it then send me the .deb files (I believe that is in there) Or just tar up the kernel?

OK I did it all and actually got somewhere, imagine that.

But now I get stuck in two parts, How do I use that kernel? (in the boot menu I have my normal kernel and then my windows line but I don't see any for this new kernel.

Secondly, I can't find a yaffs2.ko file. and the yaffs.ko file isn't a module file.

Any help?