I knew it's possible to run Sugar in VirtualBox. I didn't know we was producing vmdk images, I remember Peter was opposed to that. With those images, is the installation one-click (reasonably close to it) assuming you have virtualbox already installed?
The wiki page is terribly complicated... On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote: > Not only doable, has been done for some time now [1,2] and is > multi-platform (& what I use to demo Sugar on a Mac) > > The Oracle PUEL license [3] very interestingly permits free redistribution > for educational purposes, opening the possibility of a single installer, > ideal for our needs. > > In the past I have suggested approaching Oracle for a marketing > partnership under a CSR (corporate social responsibility) banner. > > Sean > > 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox > 2. https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/VirtualBox > 2. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL > > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard > <gonz...@laptop.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'gonz...@laptop.org');> > > wrote: > >> At least the virtualbox looks doable and a good way to show Sugar. >> >> Gonzalo >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez >> <dwnarv...@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dwnarv...@gmail.com');> >> > wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote: >>>> >>>> The larger problem is the absence of a marketing strategy, we need to >>>> know where we are going to communicate effectively. In particular, we need >>>> to choose and implement how to offer Sugar tryout to teachers and >>>> journalists. >>>> >>> >>> I can think of a couple of approaches >>> >>> * Get Sugar running well on the CuBox-i. Find budget to buy a few of >>> those to distribute to chosen journalist and teachers. Try to partner with >>> SolidRun to offer Sugar as an out-of-the-box installation option. >>> >>> * Make it easy to run Sugar inside VirtualBox on Windows and OS X. >>> Without having investigated too deeply it seems that a two step process >>> would be both realistically implementable and easy enough for the user >>> >>> 1 Install virtualbox >>> 2 Install a Sugar application (which would take care of setting up the >>> appliance). >>> >>> Thoughts? Other ideas? If we can agree on one or two concrete, >>> realistic approaches, I think we can at least attempt to get them done for >>> 3.102. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Narvaez >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >>> 'Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org');> >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >>> >>> >> > -- Daniel Narvaez
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