<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> 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. 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.  I think I may have the files a downloaded correctly but just don't know how to make it work. Help??? Caryl > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:05:26 -0400 > From: dave@solutiongrove.com > To: soas@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@solutiongrove.com > http://www.solutiongrove.com > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas </body> </html>