Re: [sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-07 Thread GaryMak
Hi Volker just so you know, I just installed the latest VM version and it has the same problem best regards Gary On Saturday, April 6, 2013 8:45:30 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: Thats it, with the non-Dropbox folder everything is as expected. You should be able to load files from there. It

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread GaryMak
OK ... this is a very sad day ... I am finally going to have to admit publicly now that I cannot even follow the instructions at Section4 of http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageAppliance in order to get my VM to be able to see python scripts I download from the kind people in this GoogleGroup ... I

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Braun
Some of the docs are out of date (sorry, feel free to update the wiki as necessary) but the shared folder section should work. And does work for me. Whats the output of os.system('ls /media') os.system('ls /media/sf_Auxiliary_files') on your machine? You should get a list of files... On

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread GaryMak
Hi - sorry for delay - thanks - I must have done something wrong - I get: sf_Auxiliary_files ls: cannot access /media/sf_Auxiliary_files: No such file or directory 512 On Saturday, April 6, 2013 1:20:37 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: Some of the docs are out of date (sorry, feel free to

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread GaryMak
slightly more helpfully: if I do each separately I get sf_Auxiliary_files 0 and: ls: cannot access /media/sf_Auxiliary_files: No such file or directory 512 On Saturday, April 6, 2013 4:50:50 PM UTC+2, GaryMak wrote: Hi - sorry for delay - thanks - I must have done something wrong - I get:

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Braun
Strange, you do see the sf_Auxiliary_files but somehow it can't be accessed. It should have worked. Are you using a reasonably recent VirtualBox version (try Help-Check for updates)? To check permissions, what is the output of os.system('ls -alZ /media') Finally, what is your host OS? Also,

Re: [sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread Gary McConnell
hi I installed an upgrade of VM around about the time of Sage 5.8 release ... the response to os.system('ls -alZ /media') is: ls: cannot access /media/sf_Auxiliary_files: No such file or directory drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0 . dr-xr-xr-x. root root

Re: [sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Braun
Thats it, with the non-Dropbox folder everything is as expected. You should be able to load files from there. It seems that the Dropbox filesystem is incompatible with VirtualBox shared folders. I'll add a note to the wiki to that extend. On Saturday, April 6, 2013 6:00:16 PM UTC+1, Gary

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-20 Thread emil
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:05:33 AM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote: On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:40:41 PM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: You can just run VBoxManage startvm Sage-5.0 from a script and it'll fire up that Virtual Machine. Thanks. I assume that it's not possible to have Sage

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-20 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:37:34 UTC+8, kcrisman wrote: On Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:44:42 AM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: This was what I was thinking, too, but we need a gui to run in the web browser to set up credentials. Which is why I'd really like a plugin system for the

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-20 Thread kcrisman
Perhaps, but of course different places/people will have different comfortability levels using the cloud, especially with Google. And when one's not connected to the 'Net... as this is about present day students, I cannot imagine them feeling any discomfort with the cloud... And

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-19 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Maybe the VM can be built to contain Grive, a Linux client for Google Drive, and then students can save the stuff there, without fiddling with flash drives crap... On Thursday, 19 July 2012 11:05:33 UTC+8, kcrisman wrote: On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:40:41 PM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote:

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-19 Thread Volker Braun
This was what I was thinking, too, but we need a gui to run in the web browser to set up credentials. Which is why I'd really like a plugin system for the notebook. If the grive instructions include log into the console and paste in some url that you copy from the web browser then we might

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-19 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:44:42 AM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: This was what I was thinking, too, but we need a gui to run in the web browser to set up credentials. Which is why I'd really like a plugin system for the notebook. If the grive instructions include log into the console and

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-19 Thread Volker Braun
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:05:33 PM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote: I assume that it's not possible to have Sage start with just the one click from a pre-installed VM, at this time? It should work. I haven't seen the pop-up dialogs that your user reports, it might be due to a version mismatch of

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-18 Thread Volker Braun
You can just run VBoxManage startvm Sage-5.0 from a script and it'll fire up that Virtual Machine. Are the lab computers really scrubbed without any permanent storage for the students? This seems rather user-unfriendly. I've broken too many flash drives ;-) You could run the gui user in

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2012-07-18 Thread kcrisman
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:40:41 PM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: You can just run VBoxManage startvm Sage-5.0 from a script and it'll fire up that Virtual Machine. Thanks. I assume that it's not possible to have Sage start with just the one click from a pre-installed VM, at this