[Sugar-devel] Installing SoaS in a VM

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 10:41 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> I am trying to debug what is happening with Write activity, but need
> restart sugar,
> then need make the installation permanent.
> 

I tested this on VirtualBox with a previous version:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Getting_Started#Sugar_on_a_Virtual_Machine

that is "Open the VM, bind the .iso image to the VM and boot it."


I wrote my Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4.iso to a stick with:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Persistence
For testing, the compressed image is slow and *for me* more difficult to
tweak.

And I used liveinst successfully to hard drive install
Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4.iso, but have not yet downloaded a TC.

Iain

> Gonzalo
> 
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Gonzalo Odiard
> <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>         liveinst do not starts using this image
>         
>         https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/21_TC4/Live/x86_64/Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-21-TC4.iso
>         
>         
>         On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Peter Robinson
>         <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Gonzalo Odiard
>                 <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>                 > I am trying to install the testing soas image in a
>                 vm,
>                 > using the procedure datailed here:
>                 >
>                 >
>                 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation#Setup_a_Virtual_Machine_for_Sugar_on_a_Stick
>                 >
>                 > Using Fedora Boxes, starting from he live iso,
>                 > and trying to run livecd-iso-to-disk, but can't run
>                 it without umount
>                 > /run/nitramfs/live
>                 > and can't umount because is in use.
>                 > Someone tried that? There are other way to install
>                 the Soas in a vm?
>                 
>                 Personally I would never do it like that. The way I do
>                 it is to boot
>                 the live image off the .iso and then once you get to
>                 the sugar home
>                 screen run terminal and run "liveinst"
>                 
>                 The livecd-iso-to-disk script is at best a hack!
>                 
>                 I'd love to be able to put an install icon on the
>                 sugar wheel or
>                 somewhere within the UI but I've never managed to get
>                 anyone
>                 interested in doing it.
>                 
>                 Peter
>                 
>                 PS There's a number of reasons I've never provided
>                 "official" VM
>                 images which is due to similar issues to what you see
>                 above.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         -- 
>         Gonzalo Odiard
>         
>         SugarLabs - Software for children learning 
>         
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gonzalo Odiard
> 
> SugarLabs - Software for children learning 
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