On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, [email protected] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Walter, >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> I've been doing some work on the Get Sugar landing page in the wiki, >>>> which has been the source of some confusion amongst our potential user >>>> community. My proposed modifications (See >>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/Get_Sugar) are an attempt to >>>> streamline and consolidate the instructions for first-time users. >>>> Feedback and testing requested. >>> >>> Some feedback.... >>> >>> For the Mac side of things I think we would be better dealing with it >>> from a direct boot option and then having a separate virtualisation >>> option as in terms of GUI say VirtualBox is the same across all >>> platforms. >> >> Do we have a robust direct boot option? I thought that was still >> causing more headaches than it was worth (from the support >> perspective). > > 64 bit yes, and the other graphics issues will be fixed by Fedora 14 > beta (if they're not already).
Where are the instructions for the 64-bit version? The only instructions I can find (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mac) refer to a helper CD. regards. -walter > >> I agree that we should note that the VM solution works on all >> platforms, not just the Mac. >> >>> >>> Also I'd like to note that its been discussed in the past about doing >>> images for particular virtualisation platforms and the reason we've >>> shied away from that is because all virtualisation platforms support >>> booting of .iso files and its then easy to do an install from there. >>> By doing this it allows us to ship and QA a single image and support >>> it on both physical and virtual platforms. If we support VIrtualBox we >>> should probably also support VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. Who's going >>> to do all that testing when we have barely the resources to do a >>> single image. >> >> It seems that Tom has been testing Virtual Box. If other VMs have >> testers, we can add those to the list. > > I've no doubt but the release team have no idea how they're created. > So if he wishes to provide the support that's fine by me. Myself I use > KVM personally and have 1000s of VMWare vms at work. I've never used > VirtualBox. When the open virtual exchange option works well where you > could import a single "open virtual image" into any VM platform > actually works I think it would be great but having dealt with those > problems with associated companies its not currently worth the pain > and the live iso image on all platforms is still the one that works > consistently everywhere. > > Peter > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
