[Sugar-devel] VMWare?

[Wade Brainerd]

VMware Player is available free for PC.  I'm not sure if it's free on
Mac and Linux.

I'm not advocating that we standardize on a single solution.  Some
deployments will already be using VMs and we should be able to easily
provide VM images which work with any of VMware, Parallels, or
VirtualBox.  www.jumpbox.com is a good example of a company doing
this.

Best,
Wade

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Hi Wade!
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I do pretty much all my Sugar development on VMs running under Windows
>> XP.  I primarily use VMware but have used QEMU a bit too.
>
> Will VMWare do what we need for free?  Are  you voting for VMWare over the
> other alternatives?
>>
>>
>> Sebastien has been producing Virtual Appliance images for the recent
>> releases which (mostly) work fine with VMware, VirtualBox, Parallels,
>> etc.
>>
>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/
>>
>> Note that the 15 March version is good (works fine) but the 21 March
>> version does not boot (should maybe be deleted?).
>
> Ok I'll try the March 15 version on my mac today.  Hopefully that process
> will help me understand how to do it on Windows2000 also.
>
> These are standard SoaS. To make this work in a computer lab we need more of
> a boot-helper version that lets multiple kids use it with their files on a
> USB.
>
>
> Thanks!!!
>>
>>
>> -Wade
>>
>> 2009/3/24 Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > VMWare recently made some stuff open source. Is anyone familiar with it?
>> >
>> > As I work in the schools it looks to me like a virtual machine will be a
>> > bigger part of the solution then I had originally thought.
>> >
>> > My vision is we have volunteers come in and  install a VM  on the
>> > schools
>> > computers so students and staff can access it without rebooting out of
>> > Windows or MacOX.  We would need to create a VM that looked for user
>> > identity and data on a USB stick or some other external medium.  So my
>> > first
>> > question how hard is this? It seems fairly similar to what I've been
>> > calling
>> > a "boot helper".
>> >
>> > The next question is should we be looking at Virtual Box or VMWare?  We
>> > will
>> > need to support MacOS10 and Windows2000!!!.  That is what is in the
>> > schools
>> > we are working with. (They have non-intel Macs also, but I'm guessing
>> > that
>> > is hopless)
>> >
>> > The final question is who can help? I don't think people with VM
>> > experience
>> > are necessarily thinking to themselves, "gee, what I know could help
>> > millions of kids".  Does anyone know any experts or where we should go
>> > to
>> > look for them?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Caroline
>> >
>> > --
>> > Caroline Meeks
>> > Solution Grove
>> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>> >
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>
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> Caroline Meeks
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>
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