[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Progress on the Virtual Appliance

[Dave Bauer]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm happy to report some progress over the weekend on the SoaS
> appliance. Finally, it turned out that some live media bits were
> accidentally included in the recent builds, which caused them not to
> boot. This has been fixed and I can confirm it now to boot into Sugar
> here. It's probably alpha quality right now and contains quite some issues:
>
> * It runs firstboot when you start it for the first time. maybe we can
> circumvent this? If not, we need a skin for firstboot.
>
> * We can automatically download activities from a.sl.o and include them,
> but they won't appear, as we can't link them to the /home directory,
> because that get's created in firstboot.
>
> * The current version does NOT work in VMware Fusion. This is a known
> issue and will be fixed once we resume building.
>
> So, please note: I just built this over the weekend to sort this out.
> You can grab it nevertheless, but I wouldn't expect it to be around much
> long after newer snapshots appeared on dl.sl.o.
>
> Here's the link: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas2-20090411.tar.gz
>
> Thanks to all those who continuously tried the images!
>
> To those who celebrate it, happy Easter!
>

Thanks, this is great news! Does the appliance include vmware tools?

Dave


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