[SoaS] [IAEP] [soas] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

[Thomas C Gilliard]

James Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:16:48PM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>   
>> I just discovered the great feature that the 4 GB USB containing
>> Soas-v3-Mirabelle can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with
>> either VMPlayer or Virtualbox.
>>     
>
>   
This is an install using liveinst in sugar terminal to the VM's Hard Disk.
It is no longer a live file system with a persistence overlay
All I am doing is copying the 8 resulting files:
  nvram
 Soas-v3-Mirabelle.log
 ''Soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmdk <- Use this file
 Soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmsd
 Soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmx
 Soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmxf
 Soas-v3-Mirabelle-s001.vmdk
 Soas-v3-Mirabelle-s002.vmdk
 Soas-v3-Mirabelle-s003.vmdk
on the 4 GB 2nd USB and running them from there with either VMPlayer or 
VirtualBox 3.2 for OSX or Ubuntu
The common interface is provided by the virtual host.

(Note: this also works for Windoz  XP Pro.: It does not need to be 
re-authorized as it senses no change when run on another OS and/or PC 
due to t6he common interface  provided by the virtual host.)

Please test it really works well.

Tom Gilliard
satellit
> Yes.  This is a common feature of all USB bootable Linux builds.
> Therefore the instructions for doing so are no longer Mac specific,
> but rather generic.  A virtual host emulates a common environment.
>
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