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

[Dave Bauer]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Thomas C Gilliard <
satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:

>  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.
>

VMWare Player does not exist for OS X so that is not an option. Virtualbox
is the only free option that performs acceptably on Windows and OS X Hosts
right now.  Virtualbox can boot the appliance, I think, with some fiddling
around.

Dave

>
> 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> <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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