Hi David and Jack,
I've posted a new SAGE-vmware image to
http://www.sagemath.org/SAGEbin/vmware/
Please give it a try (at least 7 minutes after I send this email)
and let me know what happens.
Basically I got rid of SAGE0-1.vmdk, which has version 6, and
left the version 4 disks, which should work fine (I got them from
the vmware website).
-- William
On 3/26/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jack:
> Sorry for the problems. I'm forwarding your message to
> sage-support since I don't use windows or vmware.
> - David
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jack Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mar 26, 2007 9:57 AM
> Subject: SAGE VMWare troubles
> To: David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> > Regarding Cygwin, SAGE will continue to support Cygwin. However, with
> > SAGE-2.4 I'm also going to release a VMware virtual machine with SAGE
> > preinstalled. Performance of SAGE under this machine is in many cases
> > better than with Cygwin, *especially* when using code that isn't native
> > to SAGE -- e.g., when using GAP via SAGE the experience is vastly
> > better via the VMware machine, since forks and pseudo tty's work vastly
> > better under Linux than in Windows. Also, the VMware machine will come
> > with exactly the right optimized numerical libraries preinstalled, etc.
>
>
> I tried the new VMWare download for sage 2.4 on Windows XP. I
> downloaded the VMWare player and the two zip files from
> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/SAGEbin/vmware/sage-2.4/
> extracted both, copied SAGE0-1.vmdk into
> sage-vmware-appliance\sage-vmware-appliance and double clicked on sage.vmx
>
>
> I got the error message:
>
> One or more of the disks used by this virtual machine was created by an
> unsupported version of vmware player. To power on or upgrade the virtual
> machine, either remove the unsupported disk(s) or use a version of
> VMWare player that supports this version of disks. Below is a list of
> the disks and their reported versions.
>
> Version 6 SAGE0-1.vmdk
> Version 4 Ubuntu.vmdk
> Version 4 swap.vmdk
>
>
>
> Removing these disks of course only changes the error message to:
>
> File not found: SAGE0-1.vmdk
>
> This file is required to power on this virtual machine. Use VMWare
> Workstation to repair this virtual machine.
>
>
>
> The readme.txt file for VMWare player says to use the help menu inside
> the "product". Opening VMWare player gives a modal dialog box forcing
> me to find a valid vmware configuration file. There not being any, I
> cannot open the help menu.
>
> >
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://www.williamstein.org
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