On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:06 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Anybody is welcome to maintain a virtualbox machine of Sage, and I would be happy to host it on the sagemath.org website. I don't personally have time maintain such a machine. Obviously, a Cygwin windows port of Sage would be much better. It's too bad nobody is working on that at all either. William > > > 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 > -- 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
