Palm Pre SDK (Mojo) on Linux
Virtual Pre
Update: Palm released the SDK, you can download a Linux, Mac Or Windows-SDK at : http://developer.palm.com/
The windows-version of the Palm Pre SDK leaked out last month; though still in beta it’s supposed to work, but unfortunately the installer itself is Windows only. Wine-to-the-rescue! I installed the SDK using Wine and checked the installed files. I found the emulator as a VirtualBox image in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Palm/SDK/share/emulator/images/sdk47, in windows it looks like it’s booted from a bat-file using several jar’s, but that doesn’t work on linux. So I added the virtual disk to the “Virtual Media Manager”, created a new virtual machine with 256 mb ram, added grub.iso as CD-rom and tried to boot the VM. Booting worked, kind-of; the bootmanager complained about “undefined video mode : 360″, if you don’t select a display-mode the VM will eventually halt with an error
