[SoaS] Fwd: Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X

[Dave Bauer]

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From: Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X
To: Carlo Falciola <cfalciola at yahoo.it>


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Carlo Falciola <cfalciola at yahoo.it> wrote:
>> 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...

I do this all the time since my desktop is Ubuntu and its a pain to
create SoaS from there. I use the livecd-iso-to-disk but the
liveusb-creator runs fine also in a VM. I'll see how small I can make
one.

Dave
>
> 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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