Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-15 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Wade Brainerd wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, you can create a .vmdk from .img using the QEMU tools. It's just that .vmdk is much more widely supported that .img so it would save a conversion step for most VM users. I agree that we

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.03.2009, at 21:12, Dave Bauer wrote: Ok, I was able to take the Virtualbox VM and conver it to run in Parallels, but its not easy and you definitely need to install the Parallels Tools. I also have created a new Parallels native VM based on SoaS slightly modifying the instructions

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-13 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:55 PM, S Page skierp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote:  I haven't found an easy way to get QEMU working with acceleration on OS X. QEMU on Windows is also confused, or I am.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Bauer
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: Virtualbox is Free and potentially similar. Also, coLinux requires

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-12 Thread Luke Faraone
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: But really, all we need to be doing is producing .vmdk files (virtual disk images) for our SoaS snapshots. These files can be loaded in any of VMware, VirtualBox and Parallels, and can be used with QEMU after a command

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: But really, all we need to be doing is producing .vmdk files (virtual disk images) for our SoaS snapshots.  These files can be loaded in any of VMware,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-12 Thread Luke Faraone
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: I brought up VMware Virtual Appliances as an option at one point, has anyone tried creating one of those? I'm not sure how close to one click they are though. My main problem wiht VMWare is that it's closed-source and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-12 Thread S Page
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote:  I haven't found an easy way to get QEMU working with acceleration on OS X. QEMU on Windows is also confused, or I am. http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems/Windows still points to Wade's fine bundle and detailed steps

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-11 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: Virtualbox is Free and potentially similar.  Also, coLinux requires Administrator privileges to run, so students on school computers probably can't use it.[1] Don't VMs on Windows require admin privileges to install and/or

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: Hi all, I was musing on ways to ease demoing for Windows users, and I thought of something: why not leverage the work done by coLinuxhttp://www.colinux.org/? They already have prebuilt

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.comwrote: Interesting but you'd need an X server running on Windows, according to http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/XCoLinux (IIUC). So you're still going to have to get them not only an EXE with coLinux, but one with cygwin/X

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Faraone wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.comwrote: Interesting but you'd need an X server running on Windows, according to http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/XCoLinux (IIUC). So you're still going to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:26:59PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: So, the principal difficulty with using coLinux with Sugar is that it uses a Windows-side X server, which provides its own window manager. We need to use our own, custom-configured window manager, in order for the GUI to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Silbe wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:26:59PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: So, the principal difficulty with using coLinux with Sugar is that it uses a Windows-side X server, which provides its own window manager. We need to use