[SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X

[Dave Bauer]

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.
>

Ok. Here is the first problem! There is no way to create a SoaS USB
stick on a Mac. Well I suppose you could install Windows or Fedora and
dual boot and then run the liveusb-creator, but that seems ever more
complicated.

> 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.
>

Ok. With Virtualbox you don't need to reboot at all. SoaS will run
inside Virtualbox as a guest to your OS X operating system.

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

I'll work on some better instructions.

Thanks for the feedback.

Dave

>
> 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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Dave Bauer
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