On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Bill Page <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Indeed. In fact, I just installed it on x86 Open Solaris 11 and it worked first try. Total time < 10 minutes. And it's an Open Solaris box that nobody has run Sage on before, I think. ;-) > 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 Should that be in the virtual machine, in the README.txt or in both? > 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.) Good idea. I bet we can write our own little Daemon to figure this out, assuming that "Folder Name" can be somehow discovered via the command line from within virtualbox. > > The manual mount works fine and allows read/write access to selected > files and directories on windows. Yes, very nice. > > 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? Probably. That's a great idea. > 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 don't know if it will work ever. Regarding video memory, no matter what i set when I export the machine, it always resets the video memory to 4MB on import. > 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. Wow, I didn't even know about that! Did this work. > > BTW, why are there two ethernet interfaces defined? One to connect to the outside world, and one so your desktop can connect to the virtual machine. If you define only one interface then the virtual machine can connect to the outside world, but you can't connect to the virtual machine, which is really annoying. (VMware is simpler in this way.) > Finally: Well done! Thank you for your work on this. You're welcome. We should also make a version that includes a bit more, without getting too heavy, e.g., Fricas, GCC, etc. Thanks for all your suggestions and testing! William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
