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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Wade Brainerd <<a href="mailto:wadetb@gmail.com">wadetb@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. <a href="http://www.jumpbox.com" target="_blank">www.jumpbox.com</a> is a good example of a company doing this. Best, Wade <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: > Hi Wade! > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Wade Brainerd <<a href="mailto:wadetb@gmail.com">wadetb@gmail.com</a>> 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. >> >> <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/</a> >> >> 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 <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>>: >> > 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@SolutionGrove.com >> > >> > 617-500-3488 - Office >> > 505-213-3268 - Fax >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Sugar-devel mailing list >> > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >> > >> > > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax