On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Thomas C Gilliard < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > VMWare Player does not exist for OS X so that is not an option. Virtualbox is the only free option that performs acceptably on Windows and OS X Hosts right now. Virtualbox can boot the appliance, I think, with some fiddling around. Dave > > 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]> > <[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 > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop > project!)[email protected]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Dave Bauer [email protected] http://www.solutiongrove.com
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