[Sugar-devel] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks
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 computer lab is problematic and likely not to happen very much. There are two laptop carts of 25 bought last year Macbooks but booting Sugar on a Stick is problematic. See https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+question/81566 for gory details. The teachers are enthusiastic! The goal is to be able to use the classroom bank of computers for Center Work that is time in the day when students break into groups and work on different things in different parts of the room. Sugar would become one center. We also want to be able to do whole class instruction by signing out a laptop cart of Macbooks. We have sufficient privileges to install Virtual Box on the laptop cart Macbooks. Can anyone think of way to use Virtual Box that would allow students to use the info on their sticks so they can at another point in time use a classroom computer and not always need to use the same MacBook? Thanks, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks
Can anyone think of way to use Virtual Box that would allow students to use the info on their sticks so they can at another point in time use a classroom computer and not always need to use the same MacBook? I don't quite understand your question. If the students boot the system on their sticks and write their data on them, then the data are on the sticks, not on the MacBook. What's the problem here ? -- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: Since we can't seem to boot the MacBooks directly, but we could use Virtual Box, can anyone think of way to use Virtual Box that would allow students to use the info on their sticks so they can at another point in time use a classroom computer and not always need to use the same MacBook? I may have mentioned this to you before, but I have managed to use my SoaS stick directly with VirtualBox running on a Linux host. VirtualBox has a method of making an entire physical disk available inside it's emulated environment and this is what I used. I have no idea whether this is doable under Mac OS X, nor do I have access to the hardware/software to test it. (Not to mention the time at the moment.) If you look in the VirtualBox manual for Using a raw host hard disk from a guest in section 9, you will find info about what I used. If someone else with hardware access wants to try it, I'm happy to exchange email. You are liable to run into permissions issues and any number of other problems getting this to work. If you pick the wrong host hard disk you could cause damage to your Mac OS X installation as well. Bill Bogstad ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
