FAQ: What are the host requirements for VM-arm?

What are the host requirements for VM-arm?

Host Requirements:

IBM PC compatible, Intel or AMD x86 processor with clock speed 1.0 GHz or higher
- Intel Pentium 4 or Xeon, AMD Athlon, Athlon 64 or Opteron.
- 512MB of RAM, 10MB of available hard disk space (in directory /opt).
Operating system:
- Tested Linux distributions: Debian 3.0, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, Fedora Core 3, Mandrake 9.2, Red Hat 9.0, SuSE Linux Professional 8.2 and SuSE Linux Professional 9.2.
- Other recent Linux distributions may also work but are untested.
- Microsoft Windows is not currently supported.

Like most Linux programs, this software requires certain dynamic libraries to be provided by the host operating system. Most of these are provided by modern Linux distributions by default. However, there are 2 specific dependencies which may not be supported everywhere:

libcrypto.so – this a dynamic library containing cryptographic functions (encryption, decryption, hash and signature functions). This is used by the license manager and is a pre-requisite to run the software. If this is not installed, please install the appropriate package from your installation media or from an on-line source.
libwx_gtk-2.4.so – this is a dynamic library that implements the wxWidgets graphics toolkit for the GTK environment. Functions from this library are are used to emulate the LCD screen for the Zaurus and are a pre-requisite to run the vm-pda simulator. However, the vm-arm simulator does not provide this graphics functionality and does not require these libraries. Therefore, it is possible to use VM-arm even if these libraries are not available.