To install the hypervisor (if you don't have a virtualization environment already) definitely requires administrative permissions.
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:44:12 PM UTC+1, Jori Mantysalo wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Emil Widmann wrote: > > > IMO there are three big issues with the current Sage Windows VM: > > > > 1 - It's slow because it runs within the VM (which also causes some > > usability issues with multiple webpages by the OS setup); this also > > has high memory usage. > > 2 - It's too big (I think it's something like 3+ GB) > > 3 - You can't upgrade Sage or really work with different branches as > > far as I remember. > > For casual sage *user*, not *developer*, those are not necessarily > problems. They might be, but one can have fast computer, enought bandwith > for downloading etc. > > However, can we put VirtualBox and Sage to one .exe? What is really needed > is to convert http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageAppliance to be just "1) > Download this .exe, 2) Doubleclick it, 3) Ready". > > I am now thinking for example university class using Sage as a part of > some course. Teachers don't want to use time for being it-support; > students do not try installing Sage, if it SEEMS to be complicated. > > -- > Jori Mäntysalo > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
