I fixed the issue with booting under QEMU in build 486.  I have also been able to boot under VirtualBox by converting the image to a VMWare image and adding it as the primary hard drive in a VirtualBox session.  To convert you can use this qemu command:

qemu-img  convert <raw image>  -O vmdk <image name>.vmdk

VirtualBox while harder to setup than qemu (why can’t I just run VirtualBox <img>?) gives you the ability to have shared folders to make it much easier to shuffle files between the host system and Sugar.  Pretty soon I think I will use this to do development images with full gcc support.  The nice thing is I can distribute it as a VMWare image and people who are confortable using VMWare can use that and those who want an Open Source solution can use VirtualBox.  I may even play around with VirtualBox sources to make a download and run version of our images.

Now off to see some fireworks.

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