[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] SoaS v7?

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Alexandro Colorado <jza at openoffice.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
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>> What's a "minimal vdi"?
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> vdi stand for virtual disk image, is the file format of Virtualbox used to
> handle virtual machines.
> vdi are easy to deply since you just need  Virtualbox (on Linux, win or
> osx), load the vm and u running an OS with Sugar.
> vdi usually are large (around 3GB or more), but a minimal OS like sugar
> could well be under 1GB if it's really tailored to.
> I would love to see a bootstrap version of sugar on a vdi.

We don't do a VM edition for a reason. There's a number of different
technologies (VMWare x3, VirtualBox, KVM and others just to name a
few) most of which come with different disk, network and graphics
types and it makes it very hard to target them all with high quality
releases. On the other hand you can connect the SoaS iso image to a
virtual cdrom on all platforms just fine and boot it and it will work.
You can then just run "liveinst" from the terminal to install straight
onto all of the virtual environment and it will deal with all the
issues with disk, network and graphics and you're away with a working
VM in minutes that is optimal for your configuration.

Peter


>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Alexandro Colorado <jza at openoffice.org>
>> wrote:
>> > is it possible to distribute minimal vdi?
>> > small 700mb vd small homee space (user can generate extra virtual disk
>> > for storage).
>> > i am always impress how small solid state disk can pack so much with
>> > so little. i wish a vm like that.
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>> > On 11/9/11, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
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>> >> So there's no rest for the wicked.... its time to think about what you
>> >> would like to develop for SoaS v7. I know upstream is all very busy
>> >> already.... the sugar team are full pelt into the conversion of sugar
>> >> to gtk3 and PyGI and there's all sorts of fun stuff going into
>> >> Fedora... so what do you want?
>> >>
>> >> Peter
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