[IAEP] SUGAR DESKTOP on Intel Mac's an alternate solution.

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Lucian;

My experience has been that a VM Appliance with player is quite a bit faster
and needs less computer resources than Virtual Box OSE.

I have only been working on Ubuntu (9.04 8.04), Fedora 10,11 & windows 
XP  as host OS so far.

I  have made USB sticks with a very small <1 gb Appliance and the .iso file
and thus have a USB stick that is the equivalent of a live CD.

I run them with the  Boot stick of Ubuntu 9.04 live with VMPlayer 
installed.(Detailed in the wiki)

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware

The boot stick, (or an installed VMPlayer )starts a 2nd USB stick 
containing the SUGAR appliance
The advantage: The VMPlayer can be left running without involving the 
host computer at all...
And different students can plug their sticks in for their session on it. 
they also can go home and run it on
their PC's without jeopardizing the integrity of the host PS's

The situation /should/ be the same on an Intel Mac.... : /

Cordially;

Tom Gilliard
Bend Oregon USA



Lucian Branescu wrote:
> Works great with VirtualBox, I don't know about VMware.
>
> 2009/5/24 Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com>:
>   
>> Hi;
>>
>> There is an possible alternate, interim, solution to let Intel Macs run
>> SUGAR.
>>
>> *Emulation of Fedora 11 SUGAR DESKTOP Appliances.*
>>
>> The procedures to make the Appliances and boot sticks are documented in
>> the wiki:
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware
>>
>> The VMware web site to get the MAC program fusion
>> and how to convert Linux and Windows
>> Appliances to Mac Fusion format.
>>
>> http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
>> http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windows_to_mac.html
>>
>> I do not have an Intel Mac so I have not tried this yet, but the VMPlayer
>> appliances work very well on Windows and Linux PC's that have a
>> difficult time
>> booting from Soas.
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>>
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