On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since we can't seem to boot the MacBooks directly, but we could use Virtual > Box, can anyone think of way to use Virtual Box that would allow students to > use the info on their sticks so they can at another point in time use a > classroom computer and not always need to use the same MacBook? I may have mentioned this to you before, but I have managed to use my SoaS stick directly with VirtualBox running on a Linux host. VirtualBox has a method of making an entire physical disk available inside it's emulated environment and this is what I used. I have no idea whether this is doable under Mac OS X, nor do I have access to the hardware/software to test it. (Not to mention the time at the moment.) If you look in the VirtualBox manual for "Using a raw host hard disk from a guest" in section 9, you will find info about what I used. If someone else with hardware access wants to try it, I'm happy to exchange email. You are liable to run into permissions issues and any number of other problems getting this to work. If you pick the wrong host hard disk you could cause damage to your Mac OS X installation as well. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep