I'm doing my masters at the moment and I plan on running sage quite a bit for now, both via the VM and a local linux install. I can try one image a month for you guys (The cap is a bit of an issue), and I'll try break each distro during my coffee breaks :P May be it'd help to setup a page on what to do when X happens :) I'll read through the links you've sent a little later. Thanks for the assistance once again.
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:28 AM, emil <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 1, 11:42 pm, Carel van Dam <carelv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mr. Widmann and Mr Braun, > > > > Thanks for your responses, sorry my reply has been slow. I'll try out > your > > distro during the week Mr. Widmann, I ran out of cap last month :S. The > > Read Me I was referring to was both of the Read Me's on the Sage download > > site. I can't remember which one I'm afraid. > > > > As to the *.ovf, I got that by extracting the *.ova file, some old > > instructions I found on google told me to do that :S I'm now using the > > OVA's as supplied. > > > > In the *.ova, I had er... Sage 4.7.1, the problem still persists, some > how > > the network settings were broken when I played around with the VM router > > File > Preferrences (Ctrl+G) > Network > Virtual Box Adapter (Select) > > > Edit (Space) > make changes applicable to your system. > > The network settings for the VM as per Mr. Braun's instructions are also > to > > do with it. > > > > Since My last e-mail and your replies I got the 4.7.2 ova and the problem > > seems to have fixed itself I also installed an Open SUSE VM to check I > > could get the network working with the VM and this seemed to work fine, > > both using NAT and the Bridged adaptor. > > > > Yesterday when I took the PC to another network, that broke the sage VM > > again. I fixed it this time by deleting the VM and re-importing, you > loose > > your files that way but it atleast gets you running again. I believe the > > problem is with virtualbox and not the distribution, so thank you for > your > > time spent helping me. I'll keep pocking around a bit, If I find anything > > that may be of use to some one who reads this mailing list then I'll > reply > > here again, mostly because I've seen this question asked a few times on > the > > web but it's seldomly replied to/solved. > > > > regards, > > > > Carel > > Hello Mr. van Dam, > > thank you for your detailed response. It is very helpful. The > developement of the virtual machine image - although the most popular > distribution of sage - > is still kind of a fringe topic in sage developement. To have more > people contributing, even if it is just short feedback about arising > problems, could make an considerable impact about the quality of this > product (and I explicitly include documentation/troubleshooting as one > of the most important things). > > You are right that using virtualisation has its own tricks and > pitfalls. About your problem with the lost net connection: I am > shooting in the blue here, but it could be related to an existing MAC > adress of the VM and some settings in the /etc/udev folder. > > Please read here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/no-network-on-virtualbox-udev-problem-822023/ > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2286 > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=7749&highlight=udev > > If the network connectivity is lost I sometimes had success by just > going to the network section of the Virtual Box GUI and unselect and > reselect the adapter. > > Sometimes there are other issues - the last days and I installed and > uninstalled VMs repeadetly. At one point - network was not working and > I had absolutely no clue why - I had to log into my router because the > dhcpd server had run out of possible new adresses and I had to > increase the available pool - I don't think this was the problem in > your case, just to show that there are some hard to find pitfalls. > > To improve and ease the distribution of the sage VM I built an > integrated VirtualBox Sage VM installer the last days. To develope > this further I need some feedback and testers. I know this needs some > commitment of time and Bandwith but it is just a humble invitation to > help to make sage an easier experience for a lot of users. > > I have announced this installer and the download link (650 MB) here: > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-windows/browse_thread/thread/ca801cbfc5b9170d > > kind regards > emil > > > > > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
