On Jan 14, 2008 10:52 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > > 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. > > I'm using the player. Should I be using something else?
No, player is pretty good and free. > The > workstation costs money and some website somewhere said that the server > would run slower, so I opted for the simplest solution. Yep. > I don't see any options in the preference dialog dealing with > networking. I think it's a menu that maybe pops up when you click on the network icon in the GUI. Unfortunately, i can't remember for sure. You _really_ want to find this in the vmware gui. Definitely just try the vmware help, which is supposed to be really good. > I ran the vmware-config.pl script and it asked about > networking. I enabled bridge networking (apparently it was already > enabled) and disabled NAT networking (which apparently also was enabled > by default). That doesn't make sense -- only one can be enabled at a time, I think. > I started the sage image and typed "notebook" at the > prompt. The vmware console spit out a paragraph like it was logging in, > then it briefly flashed "Error starting notebook" and refreshed the > screen back to the original login prompt. You probably broke your network completely or maybe completely disabled it by mucking with vmware-config.pl. I don't know. Hmm. You should try instead login in as manage and do /sbin/ifconfig |grep eth and report the results. If nothing comes out, you've completely disabled your vmware network. If a line with an address comes out, that's the address of your vmware machine. YOu could then do sage: notebook(address="ip.address.you.got.above", accounts=True) to start the notebook setup so that visitors to your site can create new accounts. > I read a bit of the documentation for vmware about the bridged > networking, but still have some questions. Can I have vmware bridged to > my (one and only) ethernet adapter and still have ethernet access from > my host computer? Yes. Bridged networking is logically like having two completely separate network cards in your computer -- one for your normal host OS, and one for the virtual machine. They are completely separate. > Does vmware use my host IP address, or do I need a > separate address for the vmware image? Your vmware image will get (or must be assigned) a completely separate IP address. William > > > Thanks for the answers about the security issues. > > Jason > > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
