Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-08-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/ 2/10 12:18 AM, William Stein wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 07/30/10 11:08 PM, William Stein wrote: Obviously, a Cygwin windows port of Sage would be much better. It's too bad nobody is working on that at all either.

Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-08-01 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 07/30/10 11:08 PM, William Stein wrote: Obviously, a Cygwin windows port of Sage would be much better.  It's too bad nobody is working on that at all either. William I thought you and Mike Hansen were

Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-07-30 Thread Jim Harris
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

Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-07-30 Thread William Stein
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

Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-07-30 Thread David Joyner
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

Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-07-30 Thread William Stein
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

Re: [sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-07-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 07/30/10 11:08 PM, William Stein wrote: Obviously, a Cygwin windows port of Sage would be much better. It's too bad nobody is working on that at all either. William I thought you and Mike Hansen were working on that, and expected to have it done for Sage 5.0 next month. I might be

[sage-support] Re: Is VirtualBox appliances still supported

2010-07-29 Thread Harald Schilly
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