alm Emulator is used for writing, testing, and debugging Palm OS applications.
Steps to use palm emulator:
1.Open terminal (command console).
2.Type the following command and press Enter.
palm-emulator
3.It will open a popup to select option which looks like :
SDK 3.0.0.634(800×400)
SDK 3.0.0.634(1024×768)
4. select one option and click start emulator.
Error:
After displaying loader for sometime, it may show the following error
one error as
/usr.bin/VBoxManage --nologo startvm ef1a7580-5cc5....... and second error as the VirtualBox Linux Kernel driver(vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv......
Solution from Error:
Second error gives a solution which is to run a command in console to fix the error and the command is:
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Solution:
But it may not work as it will not find the file vboxdrv inside /etc/init.d/ so here is the solution.
Just rename vboxdrv.dpkg-bak inside /etc/init.d/ as vboxdrv open terminal and type the following command. sudo mv /etc/init.d/vboxdrv.dpkg-bak /etc/init.d/vboxdrv and then run this command sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Now follow the steps to use palm emulator as explained above and emulator will work.