[Sugar-devel] virtual appliances are virtualiser specific?

[laurent bernabe]

Hello,

Apologizes for entering in the discussion. But it is because I already
faced the problem to test one of your vmdk :

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/vmdk2vdi

This is a conversion solution working on all Ubuntu versions.

Regards

Le 9 mars 2012 09:48, Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com> a
écrit :

> **
> I have used VMware Player to run them [1]:
> I have not tested further on this topic.
>
> On Creating a New VirtualBox Appliance:
>
> "Please choose the type of file that you would like to use for the new
> virtual disk.
> If you do not need to use it with other virtualization software you can
> leave this setting unchanged."
> *VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image)
> *VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)
>   *VHD    (Virtual Hard Disk)
>  *HDD    (Parallels Hard Disk)
>
> There may be a way to convert them.
>  I use the VMDK format.
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#VMware_Player_Virtualization
>
>  VMware Player 4.0 will now work with exported Virtual Box appliances
> (see Below) It still works with the compressed VMware Player files below
>
>
> Tom Gilliard
>
>
> On 03/08/2012 08:53 PM, James Cameron wrote:
>
> So are your .vmdk and .ovf files for appliances only available for
> VirtualBox?  Or will they also work on other virtualisation software?
>
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:26:06PM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>
>  Here is a new I686 VirtualBox Importable Appliance:
>
> (It is uploading now so wait until tomorrow to download it) 3 + hrs to go 8:25
> PM PST
>
>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#
> XUbuntu_11.10_sweets-distribution_sugar_0.94
>
> Tom Gilliard
>
> On 03/08/2012 08:17 AM, laurent bernabe wrote:
>
>
>
>     Le 8 mars 2012 16:54, Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> a
>     ?crit :
>
>         This is command string[1]
>         copy paste into terminal
>
>             SV=0.94
>              UV=11.10
>              SD=http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:
>              sudo apt-add-repository "deb $SD/$SV/Ubuntu-$UV/ ./" && \
>              wget -qO- $SD/$SV/Ubuntu-$UV/Release.key | sudo apt-key add - && \
>              sudo apt-get update && \
>              sudo apt-get install sweets-distribution
>
>         Did you do the last line?
>         [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/
>         Sweets_Distribution#Ubuntu_and_its_derivates
>
>
>
>     Yes i entered all of the box content (the terminal asked me I wanted to add
>     extra data to system, i accepted, then it downloaded the sugar packages)
>
>
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