On Jan 5, 2008 1:04 AM, Adam Getchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi William, > > I'm compressing vmware-sage-deluxe right now. It's 5.3G uncompressed, > running SAGE-2.9.1.1 on Xubuntu-7.10, with VMTools and the latest > updates. > > > I remember vaguely seeing that error message once. You definitely > > want to fix that, as it will make a _huge_ difference. I don't remember > > the fix, except I found it by googling around for a bit. > > I fixed that. It turns out you can't compressed the drives with active > snapshots. On the other hand, cloning a branch of snapshots > automatically compresses them down (handy for saving work). >
That's what I forgot, definitely. > > Send me an offlist email, and I can make an account for you on > > sage.math.washington.edu > > I'll upload it whenever I can get an account. I usually use > acgetchell, ok. > > It's *very* important that the "deluxe" sage vmware machine have the > > vmware tools > > fully working. This makes a big difference -- e.g., the mouse will > > move in and out > > of the virtual machine more easily, etc. > > VMtools is working, but it's out of date. It still works though. > Getting the new version of VMTools requires building a new kernel so > that the kernel headers linked to can be used in the VMTools > compilation. I had a build that tried that, it didn't work out. After > this snapshot, I may go back to my branch and see if I can get > 2.6.23.12 working. > > I'm also going to try to see if I can get SAGE to work on OpenBSD; > that's a much more secure OS (and it's easier to build a kernel on), > it would make a nice public SAGE server. That's problematic, though, > not sure I can get that to work in a week .... I'll let you know if it > goes. Michael Abshoff is porting sage to freebsd lately. > > > It would also be very good if a Sage virtual machine could be listed in the > > VMware tools virtual marketplace. I filled out the forms to get SAge listed > > once, and they were completely ignored (I heard nothing back from vmware). > > Perhaps you would have better luck? > > Sure, I'll try it when I do our VMWare order next cycle. > > > I just do a straight build. Then i replace all the spkg' files in > > spkg/standard > > by empty files, using the command /usr/local/bin/shrink that I wrote. > > Okay, I'll try that out. > > > I'm worried about that too. :-( What's the latest on it? > > As far as I know, they decided to keep lambdas, but map/reduce is gone. :-( Ah. That doesn't bother me so much since I never use either map or reduce, since list comprehensions accomplish the same thing and (to me) are much more natural, readable, and "mathematical looking". > > Anyway, it will be at least a year (minimum; probably more) > > until Sage is using Python 3000. > > Cool. > > > > -- William > > Adam > -- > "Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability in the opponent." -- Sun Tzu > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
