[IAEP] Sugar on Wireless

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Caroline,

On 27 Jun 2009, at 16:07, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> I'm back home now and checking in.
>
> When I was at FOSSED it looked like Macs running under virtual box  
> could not use local collaboration because it doesn't directly see  
> the APs.
>
> Is this confirmed?
>
> Are there other ideas for getting MacBooks using VirutalBox to  
> collaborate without an XS?

I've not done extensive collaboration tests with the SoaS Strawberry  
image, but cursory Salut tests with Chat (between a MacBook Pro  
running the Strawberry VM, and 2 other XO-1s running 0.82.1 connected  
to my local AP) seems to be working just fine. Each machine sees the  
other 2 in the Neighbourhood, each can share or join Chat Activities  
created by the others.

Were the VirtualBox VM networks set up correctly? I think NAT is the  
default setting for VirtualBox, and I'm pretty sure that will fail for  
Salut. Think of that NAT behaving like new virtual local network, as  
if your VM was running behind another separate AP.

Regards,
--Gary

> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
> On 6/26/09, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote: Hi Laura,
>
> On 26 Jun 2009, at 14:13, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
>
> Laura Johns wrote:
> Hmm... I have Sugar on three Macbooks. I removed the sugar labs server
> address from all three and verified that I could get on the  
> internet. I
> could not see the other Mac books.
>
> That is a problem.  How were you running Sugar? In Virtualbox?  If  
> so, one
> of our Virtualbox experts will have to work with you on network  
> topology
> issues.  (The problem could be that Virtualbox is running the virtual
> machine "behind a firewall", rather than giving it direct access to  
> the
> local network.)
>
> FWIW, I use these network settings. There are a number of different  
> ways to get a working network, but this one seemed closest  
> equivalent to being 'just another laptop on the network'.
>
>
>
>
> One thing to note, is that VirtualBox does not represent wireless  
> interfaces specially as wireless interfaces. It just treats them  
> like a wired ethernet connection. No big downsides to this, but you  
> will see the Sugar frame showing a "Wired Network" icon, and you  
> will not see any wireless access points showing up in the  
> Neighbourhood view – you need to be correctly connect to your  
> network access point over in OS X.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
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