[Sugar-devel] VMWare?

[Caroline Meeks]

Good point Wade!!! Thank you, I always complain about people making things
an either or solution when they aren't and I did just that!

Thanks,
Caroline

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >> >
> >> > 617-500-3488 - Office
> >> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
> >> >
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> >> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Caroline Meeks
> > Solution Grove
> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
> >
> > 617-500-3488 - Office
> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
> >
>



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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
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