Hi, Sage-VirtualBox is not supported now. Sage-VMware generally works much better for Windows users, in my experience. You should install vmware player (free) and use the vmware virtual machine.
-- William On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Jim Harris <jameswhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I went to import the vmware file into VirtualBox, it only allowed files > named *.ovf, and that's not the extension for VMWare, which is *.vmdk. I'm > hesitant to just rename file extensions. > > From all the Sage docs it looks like the approved virtual host in > VirtualBox, but from all the file distributions it seems VMWare is > supported. Should I just switch to VMWare and give up on VirtualBox? I > don't want to do that if the sage-virtualbox-*.* are temporarily pulled for > some reason. > > I've gotten Sage running on a Linux box, and I've gotten Sage installed on a > virtual install of Linux in a VirtualBox, but I'd like to see how a > customized distribution of Sage works in the VirtualBox. I'm looking for > the easiest solution to demo for some math teachers. > > I can understand why porting to Windows is a problem, but I'd like to find > the easiest local solution for Windows users to try. > > Jim > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Jul 29, 7:13 pm, Jim <jameswhar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Has VirtualBox been devalued? >> >> The doc is not ok, but you can use the currently available vmware >> image with virtualbox. Just create a new project (linux type) and >> import what's in the .zip file. I have never done this by myself, but >> I know of several others that they were able to do it. (After that, >> they were also able to upgrade to the latest version of Sage inside >> the virtual environment) >> >> H >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
