[SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X

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I don't think VirtualBox is an entire other
operating system for BootCamp?
lke grub would be for a boot manager,
but more like a hypervisor layer
OS simulator/ environment more
like VirtualPC on MacOS
or vMac (on XO)...

You seem to be looking for Windows or Mac OS,
but an application within the MacOS
that runs the SoaS image.

I don't know if putting a USB stick
in will fire up (autostart/autorun) the
VirtualBox appliance automagically...


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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