[SoaS] [realness] Sugar On A Stick for Macintosh

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Caryl,
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> On 25 Jul 2010, at 05:37, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> In the past, I have had success also running it in Virtual Box.  Again, no storage.
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> I'd be happy to talk you through a Virtual Box Sugar image install using irc (we could meet on #sugar). I do much of my dev/testing in Mac Sugar virtual machines. Perhaps you could document the step you've been missing so far, so others have a smoother path to follow?
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> Very roughly, you start by downloading one of the .iso images,  then pretend it is a CD and get Virtual Box to boot from it. Then use Terminal activity in this read only Sugar to install the images onto a the VMs virtual disk. The vm can then be rebooted into a fully working Sugar, and the .iso is no longer needed.

Does it not work using liveinst from within viartualbox?

Peter