Lucian;
My experience has been that a VM Appliance with player is quite a bit faster
and needs less computer resources than Virtual Box OSE.
I have only been working on Ubuntu (9.04 8.04), Fedora 10,11 & windows
XP as host OS so far.
I have made USB sticks with a very small <1 gb Appliance and the .iso file
and thus have a USB stick that is the equivalent of a live CD.
I run them with the Boot stick of Ubuntu 9.04 live with VMPlayer
installed.(Detailed in the wiki)
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware
The boot stick, (or an installed VMPlayer )starts a 2nd USB stick
containing the SUGAR appliance
The advantage: The VMPlayer can be left running without involving the
host computer at all...
And different students can plug their sticks in for their session on it.
they also can go home and run it on
their PC's without jeopardizing the integrity of the host PS's
The situation /should/ be the same on an Intel Mac.... : /
Cordially;
Tom Gilliard
Bend Oregon USA
Lucian Branescu wrote:
Works great with VirtualBox, I don't know about VMware.
2009/5/24 Thomas C Gilliard <[email protected]>:
Hi;
There is an possible alternate, interim, solution to let Intel Macs run
SUGAR.
*Emulation of Fedora 11 SUGAR DESKTOP Appliances.*
The procedures to make the Appliances and boot sticks are documented in
the wiki:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware
The VMware web site to get the MAC program fusion
and how to convert Linux and Windows
Appliances to Mac Fusion format.
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windows_to_mac.html
I do not have an Intel Mac so I have not tried this yet, but the VMPlayer
appliances work very well on Windows and Linux PC's that have a
difficult time
booting from Soas.
Tom Gilliard
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