<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've discussed it a bit in #sugar, and have decided to start a new project, <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas-emu/" target="_blank">SoaS-emu</a>, with the goal of producing one-click installers for SoaS on workstations. For various reasons I've decided to use VirtualBox, mostly becuase of our ability to modify it without infringing on licenses. Soas-emu will, after the install has finished, have installed VirtualBox, the SoaS virtual disk image, and registered SoaS with VirtualBox. I'm also going to add a shortcut to the desktop which starts up a new window with the VM running inside it. </blockquote> <div> Great! When can I test? The teachers at GPA have macbooks and are chomping at the bit to try out Sugar. Can you also support a version suitable for computer labs that lets different users use the same physical machine and all individaul files are stored on the USB? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Since VirutalBox has Guest Additions that are GPL (they provide non-GPL binaries), we can distrubute those preinstalled as well. These allow the VM network access, Rdesktop intergration, and seemless pointer movement (no need to "lock"). As the SoaS build process is tweaked to produce VDIs (VirtualBox' prefered format), we'll also continue to produce VMWare VMDK appliances as well as raw ext3 images which can be used in QEMU, but I believe it is vitally important that there is a simple, point-and-click solution to the issue of demoing or trying out sugar which does not require configuring an emulator or mucking around with writing images to flash drives and the BIOS. I'm also in contact with Sun (who owns VirtualBox) and a third party company called <a href="http://www.mokafive.com/solutions/player.php" target="_blank">MokaFive</a> which has a solution to make VMware portable. </blockquote> <div> Interesting. How will MokaFive's solution work? Would Sun and or MokaFive be interested in sponsoring/supporting the work in the schools with USB sticks, equipment or volunteers, joint press releases or even $? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Luke Faraone <a href="http://luke.faraone.cc" target="_blank">http://luke.faraone.cc</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax