<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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) <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware</a> </pre> 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: <blockquote cite="mid:52113c600905241716nf32fffcm66ee01f210caa438@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Works great with VirtualBox, I don't know about VMware. 2009/5/24 Thomas C Gilliard <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com"><satellit@bendbroadband.com></a>: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware</a> The VMware web site to get the MAC program fusion and how to convert Linux and Windows Appliances to Mac Fusion format. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/">http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windows_to_mac.html">http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windows_to_mac.html</a> 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 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>