On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 00:42, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can we adapt the IPython Qt app? Or did you want something more than that?
>> From what I've heard, the IPython Qt app would work well in this scenario
>> since it can connect over zeromq to the backend inside the virtual machine
>> while itself running natively on Windows.
>
> That's definitely not in any way, shape, or form, what I had in mind.
>  I meant something that appears to the user very similar as the OS X
> Sage App.  Since you (Keshav) maybe don't use OS X, you might not know
> what that means.

Indeed, I don't have a Mac and don't really know what the Sage App
does. I guessed it was something like Sage App is to Sage console as
IPython Qt console is to IPython terminal interface.

> One other thing that would make this massively better.  It would be
> cool to modify the notebook somehow so that it could store all the
> worksheets on the host Windows filesystem instead of inside the VM.
> Right now, when people delete the VM and install a new one, all of
> their worksheets simply vanish forever, and they likely shout out
> curses at Sage (rightfully so).

This is easy. Virtualbox allows you to mount external directories
inside a Linux VM - the Virtualbox guest additions provide a
filesystem type called "vboxsf" (virtualbox shared folder) to `mount`,
and device names corresponding to directories on the host's filesystem
(which must be configured in the VM's parameters).

-Keshav

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