[SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Dave and All,

Well, I tried to get the SoaS to work on my MacBook from a USB with no luck.  Here is what I did...

I had an old version of Virtual Box (2.???) so I downloaded the new one and uninstalled the old one before installing the new one.

I downloaded the appliance and attempted to follow the instructions. The Boothelper does show up on Virtual Box... powered off.  The I also seem to have Sugar and Sugar/SoaS... possibly left over from the old version I uninstalled.

I tried to download SoaS to a usb stick. When I look at the contents it shows up as "599-sugar-on-a-stick-v084" and the information says it is a Unix executable file.

I did a restart holding down the option key... it gave me a choice of Mac or Windows, nothing else. I also tried the C key. That just went straight to Mac.  

I think I may have the files a downloaded correctly but just don't know how to make it work.

Help???

Caryl




> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:05:26 -0400
> From: dave at solutiongrove.com
> To: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: [SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X
> 
> I have created an experimental USB boothelper for Virtualbox on OS X.
> This will let you boot from SoaS on USB into a virtual machine so you
> don't have to try to reboot and use a cdrom.
> This includes an applescript application called "Soas USB" which will
> manage starting the virtual machine and connecting the USB to the
> virtual machine.
> 
> It has been tested on a Macbook and an iMac running OS X 10.5.8 so
> far. It seems to work reliably on my Macbook but the iMac had some
> trouble getting the USB to be recognized. I am looking for folks for
> might want to test and give feedback.
> 
> You'll need SoaS installed on a USB stick.
> 
> To install the appliance first download and install Virtualbox
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. Note this only works with
> the Personal and Evaluation License edition since the Open Source
> edition does not have USB support.
> Next download http://www.solutiongrove.com/SoaS%20Virtualbox%20Boothelper.zip
> and unzip it.
> 
> Next open up Virtualbox and select File->Import Appliance. Navigate to
> where you unzipped the appliance and select the Soas Boothelper.ovf
> file.
> 
> Insert a SoaS USB. Make sure it is named "FEDORA" in the finder.
> Now you can run the SoaS USB application which will eject FEDORA from
> the finder, start up virtualbox and the virtual appliance and attach
> the USB. Right now its using the verbose boot process to detect
> errors.
> 
> If anyone has a chance to test this out I would appeciate it. Similar
> automated solutions could exist for Windows and Linux virtualbox
> hosts.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Bauer
> dave at solutiongrove.com
> http://www.solutiongrove.com
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