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

[Lucian Branescu]

No fiddling required actually. Click import, choose file, boot.

VirtualBox is very fast with VT-x and AMD-V.

2009/5/25 Dave Bauer <dave.bauer at gmail.com>:
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> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Thomas C Gilliard
> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
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>> Lucian;
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>> 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.
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>> 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)
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>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware
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>> 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
>>
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>> Lucian Branescu wrote:
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>> Works great with VirtualBox, I don't know about VMware.
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>> 2009/5/24 Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com>:
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>>
>> Hi;
>>
>> There is an possible alternate, interim, solution to let Intel Macs run
>> SUGAR.
>>
>> *Emulation of Fedora 11 SUGAR DESKTOP Appliances.*
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>> The procedures to make the Appliances and boot sticks are documented in
>> the wiki:
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>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware
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>> The VMware web site to get the MAC program fusion
>> and how to convert Linux and Windows
>> Appliances to Mac Fusion format.
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>> http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
>> http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windows_to_mac.html
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>> 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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