Yesterday I installed Moblin version 2 Beta on my Asus eeePC 901, a netbook with a little Atom processor in it. It’s been fun to walk it around with me yesterday and today showing people the futu re of our work here.

Now it wasn’t perfect. But as I said, it was at least serviceable.

The animated desktop didn’t really function the same way it would on a real netbook. And the screen size seemed off for some reason. In fact, the animations didn’t work at all.

I thought it would be kind of cool to try it out in a virtual machine on my Core i7 desktop system (previously code named Nehalem).

But I was able to navigate around reasonably well. Everything worked! The live CD install went well, and to my pleasant surprise, before too long I was gazing at the M-Zone.

I was surprised because Moblin makes a lot of use of the 3D graphics subsystem and needs compositing working before it will work correctly.

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I did set up the virtual machine to have 3D acceleration enabled and threw 64M at the virtualized graphics card.

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