On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Basanta Shrestha
<basanta.shrestha@olenepal.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In order to build OS and some other packages for XO laptop ( ARMv7
> architecture compatible ), I am doing virtualization through QEMU using
> Versatile Express. I have a Dell PowerEdge (2 core with 3GB RAM) which I
> consider is moderately fast machine. but inside VM I am only getting 1 CPU
> and 1GB RAM and build process is very very slow. It takes more than 6 hours
> to build the OS, right now I am building firefox and god know how long it
> will take. Is there a way I can make it faster?I wonder what people are
> using in similar cases. Please suggest.

Why are you rebuilding firefox when we already provide pre build
binaries is my first question?

I am looking for a firefox tarball and not a rpm. We have one activity that requires the firefox folder ( folder we get when extracting firefox.x.x.tar.gz) to be placed somewhere within that activity folder structures. Installing rpm will directly copy files to respective locations within the system which doesn't do my job.

Please do point me to such bundle if it can be found.

Ultimately we use physical HW for all the builds (quad core 1.4 ghz,
4gb of RAM) as the virtualised HW is slow as you can well see.
Something like the Wandboard quad which has 2Gb of RAM and a real Sata
port for $129 would provide a big improvement.

Peter

Thank you very much for this piece of information.

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Basanta Shrestha
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Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
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