Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-28 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, I'm trying to understand this. Is it possible to use the booting method Bill found, where we boot one kernal in Virtual Box, then that Linux mounts the USB and then it boots the Sugar kernal on the stick? On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote: Hi Dave,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-28 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand this. Is it possible to use the booting method Bill found, where we boot one kernal in Virtual Box, then that Linux mounts the USB and then it boots the Sugar kernal on the stick?

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-24 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote: Hi Dave, snip ** unless you put the whole damn vdi on the stick and forgo the idea of booting the stick independently as a normal OS, though there could be room to investigate booting of a small partition with a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:10, Caroline Meeks wrote: The current status of the GPA is: The 4th grade classroom has a bank of 6 machines that can boot Sugar on a Stick. The 4th grade specialist has one used laptop that can boot Sugar on a Stick. Access to the PCs in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM to the matching location on the stick. I'm not sure how the pretty way to do this would be (likely at this moment in time would be just tweaking the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM to the matching location on the stick. I'm not sure how the pretty way to do this

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Dave Bauer
Last I checked virtualbox could not boot from USB on a Mac. This may have changed in a more recent version. Dave On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Bill, On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Yes, I routinely use the Shared Folders feature for VirtualBox on the Mac :-) Every thing Sugar flavour I work on resides there for easy access between different VMs. VirtualBox treats this as a device (after installing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Dave, On 24 Sep 2009, at 01:55, Dave Bauer wrote: Last I checked virtualbox could not boot from USB on a Mac. This may have changed in a more recent version. Yep correct, that is still the case**. But, we were not talking about booting USB. Just mounting it and using the data-store