<div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard <<a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook Air : In VirtualBox Make a "new" Virtualbox appliance where you specify the existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk. NOTE the same 4 GB USB; 2nd USB containing the students appliance files runs interchagably in BOTH VMPlayer and Virtualbox on Mac and PC.s This a very simple solution with [<a href="http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.10/VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg" target="_blank">http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.10/VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg</a> VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg] installed on your Mac. See: [<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Soas-v3_Mirabelle_virtualbox_files_to_put_on_2nd_USB" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Soas-v3_Mirabelle_virtualbox_files_to_put_on_2nd_USB</a> Soas-v3_Mirabelle_virtualbox_files_to_put_on_2nd_USB] 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 may be why Virtualbox 3.2 now allows multiple expanding HD of 2 Gb slices. :: TESTED ON: :: Acer Aspire One Netbook Ubuntu 9.10 Virtualbox :: MacBook Air OSX Virtualbox :: Dell 520n Dektop PC Ubuntu 9.04 VMPlayer This means that the student has his individual copy of Soas on the USB stick and can open it on multiple computers and operating systems. This is not a live image but a full install to a virtual Harddisk. It should be much more robust. Plus the stick's contents can be copied any time as a backup. The application goes thru firstboot with the student's name and password required to access it. I think that this may be the solution we have been looking for. A compressed version of the Soas-v3 Appliance (before firstboot) is downloadable from <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Prebuilt_Soas-v3-Mirabelle_4GB_Appliance" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Prebuilt_Soas-v3-Mirabelle_4GB_Appliance</a> Thomas Gilliard satellit _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </blockquote></div> <div>I tried it on my MacBookAir, OSX 10.6.5, VirtualBox 3.2.10 and it needed about 3 times booting undtil it worked (crashes during firstboot and logon). One Problem is there is a root password set and my user is not in sudoers.</div>