It is too bad the virtualbox doesn't work well since, I have been told that VMware is more difficult to install for non-English speaking 3rd world (windows-using) countries with poor internet, due to the registration requirement.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:01 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
