[Sugar-devel] Installing SoaS in a VM

[Peter Robinson]

>> 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.

If you do liveinst you don't need to do the persistence step above.
You're much better off just grabbing the native .iso and booting it on
VirtualBox and running liveinst and completely skipping the Stick
Persistence.

Peter

>> 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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