On 8/26/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone in the SAGE development group have a version of Microsoft > Windows that supports Microsoft Virtual PC 2007? I have Vista Home > Premium on my laptop but it does not support Microsoft Virtual PC > 2007.
Very interesting. Do you mean that the operating system "Vista Home Premium" can't even run Microsoft Virtual PC images? If so, that makes me not want to spend very much time trying to get SAGE setup in Microsoft Virtual PC, since vmware will run on any version of windows and is free. It sounds like time would be better spent improving sage for vmware (literally very little time has been spent on this at all so far). > If not is Microsoft going to give you a copy of Windows that > supports Microsoft Virtual PC 2007? No. I would try XP, though, which I have on a Windows laptop that I bought a few years ago. Does Virtual PC work on Windows XP? > On 8/26/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/25/07, biozan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using Windows XP computer and I would like to use SAGE on it. > > > > > > I've installed VMware at the moment but it is not allowing me to read > > > files that I have saved in the SAGE-VMware folder that I downloaded > > > from the sage.org site. I am unable to find the right folder to place > > > my files so that I load them unto SAGE in VMware. > > > > VMware does support a notion of "Shared Folders" which basically > > gives a running vmware machine the capability of reading and writing > > files stored under Windows. I don't think the VMware image for > > SAGE has been specifically configured to make this easy (or tested > > doing this). I can look into this tomorrow. Another option I hope > > to investigate is to instead run SAGE in virtual pc -- I don't know if > > it supports shared folders... > > > > > I've read (somewhere) that coLinux is a better program to run SAGE on > > > and that I'll have better access to my files so I can load and run > > > them in SAGE. > > > > My experience with coLinux wasn't very good (it crashes computers a lot!), > > etc. Running SAGE in coLinux is no longer officially supported, though > > you could certainly download and install coLinux, then download a > > SAGE-for-Linux binary and extract it into coLinux and it might work. > > > > > Please tell me which program is better for me to load and run files on > > > SAGE. If it's coLinux, how do I install the coLinux version of SAGE on > > > my computer? If it's VMware, how to do load and run my files in SAGE? > > > > > > (I know this may sound like a stupid question, but I really need to > > > know how to do this.) > > > > It is definitely not a stupid question. The SAGE developers haven't > > put nearly enough effort into making the experience of running SAGE > > in windows via a virtual machine sufficiently flexible (the problem is > > probably that none of the developers run SAGE that way). > > > > William > > > > > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
