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OKL4/OKLinux development VMs (for VMware Workstation)
This is an Ubuntu 8.04 based image that contains the sources of OKL4 2.1.1 and OKLinux 2.6.23.24 along with the appropriate compiler tool chain. The tarball actually contains TWO VMware VMs one oklinux which is the Ubuntu development VM and iguana-vm a "target" VM that will boot the OKL4/OKLinux image. The image is placed on a virtual disk that is first mounted on oklinux and then mounted on iguana-vm where it is used as a boot disk. The console of the iguana-vm is connected via a VMware virtual serial line (implemented by a unix domain socket) to the serial port of the oklinux development VM allowing you to have a completely functional OKL4 development environment in a matter of moments!
You can download the 1.5G tarball from http://portal.ok-labs.com/contrib/oklinuxVM_2.1.tgz
About this VM
This VM was built using a beta version of VMware Workstation 6.5. However, it was built to be compliant with Workstation 5.5 which means that it is also capable of running on VMware Server as well as ESX. It does not contain any sound cards or parallel ports, it does contain a serial port that is connected to a Unix (or windows domain ) socket that is also connected to the target VM. This VM has a single processor and 512 MB of Main memory (this can be easily expanded). It has an 8 Gig, persistent compressed disk that is broken up into chunks no larger then 2G each. VMwaretools IS NOT installed, but you are free to install it in the development VM if you want. Both VMs have the standard VMware pcnet32 virtual ethernet device, the VMs are set to be connected to the VMware bridged network (shares the nic of the host that is running Workstation) so it will send a DHCP request out and respond to any DHCP grant issued on the network that the host is connected to. There is a second 100MB disk that is used to place the boot image of the target machine on, The target VM has the same characteristics as the development VM but it's memory size can be expanded (or contracted) as needed. Currently, the development VM uses slightly more than 4 GB. To login, the user account is okl4user, password: okl4
Geoff White - Durga Networks
Patch 9 updates
Download the patch file and the update tarball to upgrade your VM to the latest right here.