Introduction

[Bryan Kearney]

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