I was excited at the ease of installatin & configuration of VirtualBox then SoaS-1 March 5th on an Intel Mac Mini this past weekend.
VirtualBox has a one-click installer and (having little hands-on experience with VMs) I found it not at all hard to follow the instructions. I was especially thrilled when I found the Neighborhood populated with jabber visitors! The VM parameter screen seems to imply access to a USB key can be specified. I can't compare it to VMWare, but from a cost/usability point of view I am favorable. Sean 2009/3/24 Caroline Meeks <[email protected]>: > Hi Wade! > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Wade Brainerd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I do pretty much all my Sugar development on VMs running under Windows >> XP. I primarily use VMware but have used QEMU a bit too. > > Will VMWare do what we need for free? Are you voting for VMWare over the > other alternatives? >> >> >> Sebastien has been producing Virtual Appliance images for the recent >> releases which (mostly) work fine with VMware, VirtualBox, Parallels, >> etc. >> >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/ >> >> Note that the 15 March version is good (works fine) but the 21 March >> version does not boot (should maybe be deleted?). > > Ok I'll try the March 15 version on my mac today. Hopefully that process > will help me understand how to do it on Windows2000 also. > > These are standard SoaS. To make this work in a computer lab we need more of > a boot-helper version that lets multiple kids use it with their files on a > USB. > > > Thanks!!! >> >> >> -Wade >> >> 2009/3/24 Caroline Meeks <[email protected]>: >> > Hi, >> > >> > VMWare recently made some stuff open source. Is anyone familiar with it? >> > >> > As I work in the schools it looks to me like a virtual machine will be a >> > bigger part of the solution then I had originally thought. >> > >> > My vision is we have volunteers come in and install a VM on the >> > schools >> > computers so students and staff can access it without rebooting out of >> > Windows or MacOX. We would need to create a VM that looked for user >> > identity and data on a USB stick or some other external medium. So my >> > first >> > question how hard is this? It seems fairly similar to what I've been >> > calling >> > a "boot helper". >> > >> > The next question is should we be looking at Virtual Box or VMWare? We >> > will >> > need to support MacOS10 and Windows2000!!!. That is what is in the >> > schools >> > we are working with. (They have non-intel Macs also, but I'm guessing >> > that >> > is hopless) >> > >> > The final question is who can help? I don't think people with VM >> > experience >> > are necessarily thinking to themselves, "gee, what I know could help >> > millions of kids". Does anyone know any experts or where we should go >> > to >> > look for them? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > Caroline >> > >> > -- >> > Caroline Meeks >> > Solution Grove >> > [email protected] >> > >> > 617-500-3488 - Office >> > 505-213-3268 - Fax >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Sugar-devel mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > >> > > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
