[Sugar-devel] VMWare?

[Sean DALY]

The key I think will be: easy instructions, easy to install & configure

Often a flowchart thing can work: "If you are running Windows XP and
wish to use a separate USB key for each student, choose Option 1.
If..."




2009/3/24 Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>:
> 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
>> >
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