[Sugar-devel] Sugar and XS in VirtualBox

[Edward Cherlin]

Of the .iso images I have tried in VirtualBox, the following worked
correctly as far as I have gone with them:

o Debian (with only a few Sugar packages available)
o Fedora (with Sugar packages)
o Caixa Mágica (but I have not installed Sugar yet)
o Fedora Sugar Spin (Select Sugar session before logging in)
o SoaS 20090503
o Fedora 11 build for XO (preliminary to XO 1.5 builds)
o XS school server (but I have not fully configured it and tested it with XOs)

The following fail:

o SoaS Beta (Crashes during boot)
o sugar-jhbuild (X not configured)

I have put my notes on the Emulator Image Files page in the Wiki.
Please let me know if you would like further details of any of these,
which I intend to use for further testing.

Now that I have an adequate set of functioning images, I intend to
practice setting up shares and learning how to use virtual USB drives
in VirtualBox. My plan has been to develop various sorts of learning
material in VirtualBox, and extract the saved files from the Journal
to put into lesson plans in Moodle.

Once I can do all of that, I may need some technical assistance with
the plan that follows, to make it easy for content developers to set
up Sugar in emulation and move lesson plans in and out without having
to understand setting up VirtualBox themselves.

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