On 1/14/08, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > On Jan 14, 6:51 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to set up a sage notebook for my class to use. At the AMS > > meetings, William mentioned that the easiest way to do this was to use > > the vmware appliance to run the notebook (even if I plan to run the > > appliance under linux). I presume the reasons have to do with security. > > I have the vmware appliance running now, so the initial setup is all > > good. However, the address is a 192.168.x.x address, which I presume is > > not visible outside of my network. Is there a way to get the sage > > vmware appliance visible to the world so students could use it from > > anywhere? When I installed vmware, I just used the defaults everywhere. > > Should I have chosen something different when answering questions > > about the networking? > > You need to set up bridged networking instead of NAT.
Which is trivial, by the way. All you have to do is change some menu option in the vmware gui. Are you using vmware server, workstation, or player? Anyway you should easily figure out how to setup bridged from the vmware docs or just looking around. > > Are there any security issues I should be aware of? I don't care if the > > vmware image gets messed up---I assume I can just reset it. I can back > > up my notebook worksheets so I don't lose work. I assume that people > > escaping the vmware appliance and getting into my computer is a > > non-issue; is that correct? > > It is theoretically possible, but the skill set needed to do that > would make you want to turn off your computer and hide it somewhere in > a shielded room, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. Indeed. In fact vmware is often used by very serious people analyzing viruses and other very malicious software specifically because vmware is very good at providing a safe sandbox. The main worry might be a student running something malicious from the vmware jail that could attack other computers. You might want to use the "snapshot" feature of vmware, if you have it, or at least make a copy of everything once in a while (the vmware directory). > > > In return for answers, I'll write an entry in the FAQ or a new page in > > the wiki :). > > Nice. John Voight is running a bunch of VMWare images on top of > Windows with DSage, so he might have some input on the setup if it > goes beyond enabling bridged networking. > Yep. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
