> Do you mean that one cannot run Virtual Box without X11? > I'd imagine if it were possible one can just run the sagenb server there, > and > use the browser on the host system only.
The discussion goes in circles ;-) Running the Vm without X and accessing it from the host-browser is the current solution. If networking/port forwarding from VM to host would work reliably or even if one would have good testers base and docs about what can go wrong and how to fix it then headless mode and autostart of the notebook in the host-browser would be a good solution. Problems start when something goes wrong. In headless mode there is even no visible Linux terminal window. If if a terminal is brought up then the user is left to the linux commandline and - probably - get lost. Example: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/a4808f2cf5b8b79f/03db2e576b21f42e Hmm, reading this again the missing terminal in headless mode is probably an asset. In my personal opinion the work follows 3 tangents: 1) Docs! 2) Integration and support from the windows side , e.g. start- scripts&gui, menu entries, generation of desktop icons, diagnose scripts - e.g. network connection/firewall, even eventually combined installer "VirtualBoxOSE plus Sage VM" 3) Two virtual images, with possibly complete capabilities (e.g. X +browser, GuestAdditions, graphics in R, JRE, Matplotlib graphic backend, etc.) which can be started either in server mode (headless) with autostart of the host browser, or in VirtualBox seamless mode. One of the sage images is basic, 32/bit, compiled with option FAT Binaries and 1 processor. The other is 64 Bit and more demanding on the Hardware. I tried Volkers VM, but unfortunately it is to heavy to run on my machine properly (yes, only 1 GB RAM). I also tried to improve my own Puppy-VM with the Guest Additions, but I failed to get the mouse- pointer integration to work - tough luck. Personally I will not have time to work on this a lot over the next several months, and my opinion is, that the progress is determined if a group of people on the windows side is motivated to help, be it testing or even developing. This could be the hardest part, because most windows-users expect something working out of the box and give up rather quick if something behaves unexpected. The very few "bug reports" I got mostly were as detailed as " A is not working and B is not working and I wasted 15 min on this crappy software". Still better than no feedback at all ... Since it the whole is technically nontrivial but definitely not rocket science I wonder if this would be a possible student class project of some Computer Science / Engineering course? just my 2 Cents emil -- 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
