It's not to hard to build such an image on your own. Just look at the posts before.

Here is my eeepc.vmx

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "512"
scsi0:0.present = "FALSE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "eeepc.vmdk"
scsi0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
displayName = "EeePC"
guestOS = "otherlinux"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
powerType.powerOff = "hard"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "hard"

sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

It's for vmware-server. I'm not sure, but i think it should work on vmware-player too. You just have to modify the file to your needs.

vofiwg

Last edited by vofiwg (2007-12-25 4:47:27 pm)

I am having a problem with installing on Virtual PC 2007.  Some of the instructions on the French website just don't work for me for some reason.  Could someone who's done it compile a step by step in English?  That would be great.  I'm trying to decide if I want one of these little guys, and being able to test out the environment would be awesome.

manatlan wrote:

But do you know if it's possible to create a "qemu image disk" from my real SSD sda of my asus eee pc ?
Can i create a qemu image with dd tool ?

dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/<samba?>/eee.raw bs=1024

From there it should be a RAW image that qemu-img can understand, so then convert it to the format you need:

qemu-img convert -f raw eee.raw -O vmdk eee.vmdk

This'll need about 12gb space in total, so be prepared.

Not sure what happened to my previous post.

I've added the info in this thread in a wiki page http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:virtualeeepc
of course giving credit to TundraMan (I hope you don't mind I copied your text).

Feel free to update/adapt

Creating a Virtual Machine is quiet easier. No need to use loop-device. That should work under Windows too.

Look here: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php? … 52#p159152

vofiwg

Last edited by vofiwg (2008-03-10 6:20:23 pm)

qemu cannot use the asus-bios in any way. Try installing (better not!) a bios from an lenovo-notebook on a dell. That will not work.

vofiwg

This is the module for networking in Virtualbox:
http://www.freefilehosting.net/download/3edlb
Copy it to /lib/modules/2.6.21.4-eeepc/kernel/drivers/net/
After that do a sudo depmod -a
If it's not loading automaticly after reboot add a line with pcnet32 in /etc/modules.

Here is the module for sound:
http://www.freefilehosting.net/download/3edle
Copy it to /lib/modules/2.6.21.4-eeepc/kernel/sound/pci/

For getting sound working, you need to configure it with:

sudo alsaconf

vofiwg

There was a nice tutorial on sourceforge, how to run the EeePC virtually in the provided EeePC SDK...

You can test Eee PC softwares without a real Eee PC.
Create the Eee PC VMWare image by the procedures:

* Download and install Eee PC SDK. Remember to
  install the Eee PC development tools.

* Download the Eee PC 701 ISO files. (Choose your preferred language)
  Put it into the SDK host.

  Or, if you have an Eee PC restore DVD, you can generate
  an iso file by

    dd if=/dev/cdrom of=L701.iso

* There is a script vmware-convert that can convert the ISO file
  into a VMWare image:

    /usr/bin/vmware-convert L701_XX-1.0.X.XX.iso

  The image will be generated to /tmp/asus.vmdk.
  Move it to a directory you like.

* Download the VMWare config EeePC-701.vmx,
  put it into the same directory as asus.vmdk.

* Open the config file by VMWare Player. In the SDK, run it from
  the main menu -> Applications -> System -> VMWare Player.

* Enjoy it!

kenjiru wrote:

ok, but if you don't want to install the SDK?

you can still follow the tutorial... the only benefit of the SDK image is that it has the vmware player installed by default...

PhantomsDad wrote:

Running VirtualBox on my regular debian system and running Xubuntu as guest OS, I am able to get 800x480 screen size.  Just install the VirtualBox Guest Additions.  Among other things, this substitutes the vbox video driver for vesa in the xorg.conf file.  Then add the following ModeLine to the Monitor section of xorg.conf

Code:

        Modeline        "800x480" 44.32 800 832 1000 1032 480 489 496 505

and add the following to the Screen section

Code:

        SubSection      "Display"
                Depth   24
#                Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "800x480" "640x480"
                Modes "800x480"
        EndSubSection

Uncomment the first Modes line if you want to default to 1024x768.  Then you can switch to 800x480 for testing using

xrandr -s 800x480

Should be possible to combine this with running eee system as guest OS to come pretty close to simulating eeePC in Virtual Box.

Thanks to this for the info.

http://angel-de-vicente.blogspot.com/

the problem is you need to have make, kernel-headers, etc. ... installed on your EeePC VirtualMachine ... has anybody an idea how to do that?

vofiwg wrote:

This is the module for networking in Virtualbox:
http://www.freefilehosting.net/download/3edlb
Copy it to /lib/modules/2.6.21.4-eeepc/kernel/drivers/net/
After that do a sudo depmod -a
If it's not loading automaticly after reboot add a line with pcnet32 in /etc/modules.

Here is the module for sound:
http://www.freefilehosting.net/download/3edle
Copy it to /lib/modules/2.6.21.4-eeepc/kernel/sound/pci/

These links aren't working anymore. Could someone please reupload them somewhere?

*bump*

Anyone have the sound module listed above?