Moblin developer images

Submitted by Bob Spencer, updated on 20 Nov 2009 - 8 comments

Usage:

There are multiple developer images available below with detailed instructions accompany each to get your started. Development images contain development libraries and header files needed to build applications.

Note: The Moblin platform is still in a preliminary, beta-quality stage. It is not recommended for production workstations. However, all are welcome to try out the images, if you are willing to accept a few frayed edges.

Archived Beta Developer Images

Moblin Live Beta Development Image

August 02 - Archived Image (MD5 SUM)
Load the image on your netbook or a PC with an Intel graphics chipset
Requires copying to a USB pen drive or burning to CD
Image size (img): ~938 MB
Detailed instructions (Est time: 30 min)

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Where are the images?

Submitted by Leonardo on 24 September 2009 - 10:17am.

When I try to download any of these images, I get a 404. The standard release download doesn't run on virtualbox. Does anyone know if they run on VMWare?

I updated the link to the

Submitted by Michael Shaver on 24 September 2009 - 10:27am.

I updated the link to the beta developer image. It has now been archived since the official 2.0 release is available. The alpha images have been removed from the mirror and are no longer available.

mouse doesn't work on moblin live development image

Submitted by Beto on 12 July 2009 - 1:11pm.

hi i downloaded moblin-netbook-core-developer-alpha2-20090311.img and i'am using VirtualBox, but te mouse doesn't work any ideas or there is a newer image?

Kernel (re)build) ... some steps fwd ...

Submitted by slj on 12 June 2009 - 6:07am.

OK .. I figured out when downloading original kernel sources from kernel.org and then copying the moblin sources over that tree (why isn't patch used?) then the make file will go pass that `missing-syscalls' error.

Using the plain vanilla linux-2.6.29.4 kernel sources and the .config from moblin2 results in a successful build.

Using the combination of linux-2.6.29.4 kernel sources and the beta sources 2.6.29.4-6.1.moblin2-netbook copied into the original kernel sources, will fail on the Tungsten Graphics driver files for the Poulsbo .. incompatibilities between .c and .h files.

Kernel 2.6.29.rc7-40.1.moblin2-netbook (re)build ..?..

Submitted by slj on 12 June 2009 - 1:50am.

When trying to rebuild the kernel from the "moblin-netbook-core-developer-alpha2-20090311.img" in the mic2 chroot environment, in VirtualBox or on a Z510 target, I always run into this error:

bash-3.2# cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.29.rc7-40.1.moblin2-netbook/
bash-3.2# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'. Stop.
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

Trying to update/upgrade the sources & packages with yum results in dependency error "Missing Dependency: libclutter-glx-0.8.so.0 is needed by package metacity-20090115-2.3.moblin2.i586 (moblin)"

The only thing that did work is building the clutter example. The helloworld app builds, installs and runs as described.

My expectation from this developers image is that it can be used to modify the distro to whatever I like .. disappointing to see that a "basic" kernel (re)build fails in within 10 seconds, so wondering if this development image was actually ever used to build the kernel used in this distro?