> I've discussed it a bit in #sugar, and have decided to start a new project, > SoaS-emu <http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas-emu/>, 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.
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? > > > 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 MokaFive <http://www.mokafive.com/solutions/player.php>which > has a solution to make VMware portable. 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 $? > > > -- > Luke Faraone > http://luke.faraone.cc > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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