William, Here are a few first impressions:
Maybe a significant point to make here is that it is not necessary to be running Windows in order to import this virtual machine into VirtualBox. A linux or OSX machine will do just as well. There are times that one might want such a small, independent and lightweight version of Sage anywhere. Although this is presumably intended to be usable right out of the box, it might be good to have a small tutorial pointing out some basic functions of VirtualBox including shared folders accessible from the Devices menu and mounted as follows: # mkdir /mnt/shar # mount -t vboxsf "Folder Name" /mnt/share (It would be nicer if the file manager or media mounter supported this automatically.) The manual mount works fine and allows read/write access to selected files and directories on windows. It might also be worthwhile to install samba-client to permit mounting windows shares if you think space permits in the disk image. I tried this but kept getting connection refused. Perhaps a local windows firewall issue? I think it is also useful to increase video memory to the minimum 7 Mb. required for seamless mode. I tried this since I usually prefer to run in this mode where the linux system seems to share the same desktop as windows. But I couldn't quite get it to work. Maybe it is a limitation of the window manager? I found 'Menu/Utilities/Resize Personal File' very useful because I really wanted to try copying /sage into a writable area so I could install optional packages like fricas-aldor. BTW, why are there two ethernet interfaces defined? Finally: Well done! Thank you for your work on this. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
