[Sugar-devel] virtual appliances are virtualiser specific?

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Sun Mar 11 23:14:27 EDT 2012


Okay, so it is probably worth referring to them as virtual appliances
alone, rather than VirtualBox virtual appliances.  No need to constrain
their use to only VirtualBox.

Thanks, but I wasn't asking how you made them, but what they could be
used on.

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:48:03AM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> I have used VMware Player to run them [1]:
> I have not tested further on this topic.
> 
> On Creating a New VirtualBox Appliance:
> 
> "Please choose the type of file that you would like to use for the new virtual
> disk.
> If you do not need to use it with other virtualization software you can leave
> this setting unchanged."
> *VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image)
> *VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)
> 
>  *VHD    (Virtual Hard Disk)
>  *HDD    (Parallels Hard Disk)
> 
> There may be a way to convert them.
>  I use the VMDK format.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#
> VMware_Player_Virtualization
> 
>         VMware Player 4.0 will now work with exported Virtual Box appliances
>         (see Below)
>         It still works with the compressed VMware Player files below
> 
> 
> Tom Gilliard
> 
> 
> On 03/08/2012 08:53 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> 
>     So are your .vmdk and .ovf files for appliances only available for
>     VirtualBox?  Or will they also work on other virtualisation software?
> 
>     On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:26:06PM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> 
>         Here is a new I686 VirtualBox Importable Appliance:
> 
>         (It is uploading now so wait until tomorrow to download it) 3 + hrs to go 8:25
>         PM PST
> 
>          http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#
>         XUbuntu_11.10_sweets-distribution_sugar_0.94
> 
>         Tom Gilliard
> 
>         On 03/08/2012 08:17 AM, laurent bernabe wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>             Le 8 mars 2012 16:54, Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com> a
>             ?crit :
> 
>                 This is command string[1]
>                 copy paste into terminal
> 
>                     SV=0.94
>                      UV=11.10
>                      SD=http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:
>                      sudo apt-add-repository "deb $SD/$SV/Ubuntu-$UV/ ./" && \
>                      wget -qO- $SD/$SV/Ubuntu-$UV/Release.key | sudo apt-key add - && \
>                      sudo apt-get update && \
>                      sudo apt-get install sweets-distribution
> 
>                 Did you do the last line?
>                 [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/
>                 Sweets_Distribution#Ubuntu_and_its_derivates
> 
> 
> 
>             Yes i entered all of the box content (the terminal asked me I wanted to add
>             extra data to system, i accepted, then it downloaded the sugar packages)
> 
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