I have created an experimental USB boothelper for Virtualbox on OS X. This will let you boot from SoaS on USB into a virtual machine so you don't have to try to reboot and use a cdrom. This includes an applescript application called "Soas USB" which will manage starting the virtual machine and connecting the USB to the virtual machine.
It has been tested on a Macbook and an iMac running OS X 10.5.8 so far. It seems to work reliably on my Macbook but the iMac had some trouble getting the USB to be recognized. I am looking for folks for might want to test and give feedback. You'll need SoaS installed on a USB stick. To install the appliance first download and install Virtualbox http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. Note this only works with the Personal and Evaluation License edition since the Open Source edition does not have USB support. Next download http://www.solutiongrove.com/SoaS%20Virtualbox%20Boothelper.zip and unzip it. Next open up Virtualbox and select File->Import Appliance. Navigate to where you unzipped the appliance and select the Soas Boothelper.ovf file. Insert a SoaS USB. Make sure it is named "FEDORA" in the finder. Now you can run the SoaS USB application which will eject FEDORA from the finder, start up virtualbox and the virtual appliance and attach the USB. Right now its using the verbose boot process to detect errors. If anyone has a chance to test this out I would appeciate it. Similar automated solutions could exist for Windows and Linux virtualbox hosts. -- Dave Bauer [email protected] http://www.solutiongrove.com _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
