[Sugar-devel] VMWare?

[Wade Brainerd]

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.

Sebastien has been producing Virtual Appliance images for the recent
releases which (mostly) work fine with VMware, VirtualBox, Parallels,
etc.

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/

Note that the 15 March version is good (works fine) but the 21 March
version does not boot (should maybe be deleted?).

-Wade

2009/3/24 Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>:
> 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
>
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