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[Philippe Clérié]

Thanks for the replies. I'll schedule some overnight downloads. 

Philippe

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The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
<Anonymous>


On Wednesday 30 July 2008 06:02:30 Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Philippe Clérié wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been asked to help some people who are involved with the OLPC
> > project in Haiti. I've been following the OLPC since Nicolas
> > Negroponte announced it way back when plus I've been working with
> > Linux for several years now. So it seems I know a little bit more
> > and I may be useful.
> >
> > I downloaded one the latest images (build 2180 I think) to run on
> > QEMU/KVM. On QEMU it stops with the following message:
> >
> > This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
> > 3dnow
> >
> > KVM does not seem to work at all. I have not been able to find much
> > on these problems. I was hoping someone could shed some light.
> >
> > My computer is running Kubuntu Hardy by the way. :-)
> >
> > I suppose I'll have to switch to Fedora, but I don't have the
> > bandwidth to download a DVD.
> >
> > Regards
> > Philippe
>
> Look like other folks have hit this [1]. If you are willing to try
> another download, can you see if [2] works for you?
>
> -- bk
>
> [1]
> http://n2.nabble.com/qemu-on-Kubuntu---error-regarding-3dnow-support.
>-td431541.html [2] http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugarAppliance.tar.gz