I have been working on a VM with compressed filesystems. I have thought that maybe a good aproach to the "automatic generation" problem would be to mount the sage directory from a compressed file in a shared folder. It should need, as William sugested, a windows GUI app that would take care of configuring shared folders properly. But that way, producing a new version of the VM after a new release of Sage would be as easy as getting an installation of sage (which works fine in the guest os) and compressing it to a file.
In my tests, the Sage folder takes around 2 gigs of disk space (after make micro_release, which by the way gave me an error). Compressing it into a squashfs file with lzma reduces it to 760 megs. And we have to add the rest of the system (almost half a gig in my system, also squashed). So, even with compressed filesystems, the apliance would take a lot of disk space. -- 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
