On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
No, absolutely not. That is as wrong a perspective as possible, so if you still think that then somebody needs to make a screencast. > >> 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). I know about that, but I would not call it "easy". There are subtle issues, e.g., where on the host's filesystem should Sage store its files. There are also issues with getting it to actually work in practice robustly. But it's probably the best approach given how the notebook currently works. -- William > > -Keshav > > ---- > Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
