No fiddling required actually. Click import, choose file, boot. VirtualBox is very fast with VT-x and AMD-V.
2009/5/25 Dave Bauer <[email protected]>: > > > 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]>: >> >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
