Setting up OLPC on an Intel MacBook Pro

The following DID NOT work. Skip it.

• Noted this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux
• Decided Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, as the case may be for me) Gutsy Gibbon was the way to go because a single repository could be added to automatically pull the latest Sugar/OLPC environment.
• Discovered that Parallels dislikes the current Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) beta
• Downloaded VMWare Fusion trial
• Initially took forever to get to the installer, but upped the VM memory to 768MB
• Now, consistently gets "stuck" at "87%: Installing Language Packs" in the installer. It's not truly stuck (or is it?) It's using a lot of CPU, so it's not hung, but may be in a loop or something. Several hours later, still no progress.

After this, decided to try a different route.

The following DID work.

• Downloaded latest OLPC disk image from http://dev.laptop.org/pub/virtualbox/ (as of this writing it's OLPC-613.zip)
• Used Parallels Transporter to convert it from a VMWare image to a Parallels image
• Parallels will only convert the HDD, not the VM itself. It also says it is not a bootable image, but it lies. Also: remove dashes from both folder name and filename (Parallels doesn't seem to like them?)
• Create new Parallels VM using advanced/custom, set memory to 128MB, point it to your converted image
• In the final step, uncheck the "install Linux" checkbox. (Remember, Parallels doesn't think the image is bootable, but it is.)
• Start up the VM. You should get the boot loader (GRUB?), some text-mode boot information, then the login screen. At this point, you're golden. Have fun!