[SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X

[Carlo Falciola]

> Ok. Here is the first problem! There is no way to create a
> SoaS USB  stick on a Mac. 

what about create a minimal fedora appliance for VirtualBox (eventalually stripped down to the basic) with the liveusb-creator already installed & ready ?
Moreover in the appliance fs there could already be stored the soas image in a well known location, so it would be oneshot download...
 Shure It's a waste of download-space but should do the trick? Does It?
BTW I assume that a VB fedora VM is able to write an USB stick properly...

Then the enduser detailed procedure should be:
1. Download the VM image properly packed
2. boot it into Virtual Box
3. mount the USB stick in the VM
4. run liveusb-creator available in the VM
5. prepare the stick (cicle 3 to 5 as desired).


ciao 
Carlo (F) 


 
 
--- Gio 29/10/09, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> ha scritto:

> Da: Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com>
> Oggetto: Re: [SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X
> A: "Caryl Bigenho" <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> Cc: "Sugar-Labs Mailing lists" <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Data: Giovedì 29 ottobre 2009, 14:01
> 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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> 
> 
> 

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