On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Dave Bauer <dave.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Wade Brainerd <wad...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Luke Faraone <l...@faraone.cc> wrote: >> >>>> Virtualbox is Free and potentially similar. Also, coLinux >> >>>> requires Administrator privileges to run, so students on school >> computers >> >>>> probably can't use it.[1] >> >>> Don't VMs on Windows require admin privileges to install and/or run (I >> >>> honestly don't know)? >> >> >> >> I presume that we can package up the emulator as just some .exe on a >> USB >> >> stick, to be run without needing installation. >> > >> > VirtualBox and VMWare all need drivers in the Windows kernel, so you >> > are limitted to amazingly slow quemu. >> >> QEMU is plenty fast when you install the acceleration service. What >> it lacks is a simple installer. >> >> > Finally, we cannot legally redistribute VMware and the interesting >> > parts of VirtualBox like USB and rdesktop support. >> >> We can redistribute VMware player as part of a Virtual Appliance. >> >> But really, all we need to be doing is producing .vmdk files (virtual >> disk images) for our SoaS snapshots. These files can be loaded in any >> of VMware, VirtualBox and Parallels, and can be used with QEMU after a >> command line conversion step. >> > > You need the VMware, VirtualBox, or Parallels specifc extensions and > drivers, so we really end up needing one image for each platform to make > this easy for people to use. Hackers can of course, always customize the > VMDK. > > I just tried coverting the VirtualBox VDI and learned that Parallels can't > just load the image, it needs the VMware or VirtualBox VM configuration file > that goes with the VM to do the import. > > I am sure its possible, but it's a little trickier than it looks. > Ok, I was able to take the Virtualbox VM and conver it to run in Parallels, but its not easy and you definitely need to install the Parallels Tools. I also have created a new Parallels native VM based on SoaS slightly modifying the instructions to build the VM on Virtualbox. Dave > > Dave > >> >> Once we have a stream of .vmdk files coming, we can move on to >> creating Virtual Appliances or other easier to use solutions. >> >> Check out >> http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/OLPC-XO-Software-8.2.0-Setup.exe<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ewadeb/OLPC-XO-Software-8.2.0-Setup.exe> >> for an example of a QEMU-based installer for Windows. This uses >> OLPC's 8.2.0 release but could be easily retargeted at SoaS. >> >> Cheers, >> Wade >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > > -- > Dave Bauer > d...@solutiongrove.com > http://www.solutiongrove.com > -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com http://www.solutiongrove.com
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