On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Erik, > > would this work on Windows running in a VM? > Ideally, for testing purposes, that's what one would prefer over having > a dedicated box for testing.
It should work. I really ought to be doing that myself but I've been using a dedicated box (on the plus side that has revealed interesting things that occur during *uninstallation*). I just don't have a license handy by which I could easily make a Windows VM. But as long as you can run Virtualbox inside Virtualbox (which last I tried works) then yes. > On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 11:15:58 AM UTC, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've been working for a few weeks on an installer for Sage on Windows, >> which takes advantage of Docker to accomplish this.* The goal of this >> project is to make it possible to run Sage on Windows with as much >> transparency as possible, such that the user isn't really aware that >> there is any virtualization involved. As you can read in my report >> for the OpenDreamKit project on Docker containers [1] there are limits >> to this. >> >> However, in the ideal case a user simply downloads and runs an >> executable--clicks through a graphical install wizard, and then gets a >> desktop icon which launches a Jupyter notebook (with sage and terminal >> support) in their default web browser. Although there are still a few >> rough edges [2] the alpha version of the Sage for Windows installer >> that I have for you today does just that: >> >> >> https://github.com/embray/sage-windows/releases/download/v1a1/SageMath-7.0-1a1-fat.exe >> >> My hope is for this to eventually be adopted into the SageMath project >> as the "official" distribution for Windows, replacing the existing >> VM-based solution as I believe that this gives an overall >> lighter-weight and more transparently "native" user experience. In >> the future the same approach could also be adopted--I think--to >> provide a "local" installation of SMC. >> >> Now, if anyone with access to a Windows machine (Windows 7 or newer), >> it would be a big favor if I could get a few testers to bang this >> around a bit and see what breaks and what works and what could be >> improved. >> >> To be clear, right now it only supports running the notebook, though >> I'm also working on making it possible to run `sage` at a Windows >> command prompt (almost working). Also be aware if you try to test >> this: The biggest limitation for now (as described also in [1]) is >> that for Docker on Windows hardware virtualization support is required >> to be enabled. If this is not enabled the most likely outcome is that >> the installer will fail with an error message like "Could not start >> Docker VM". In this case you will have to grub around in your BIOS >> settings to find hardware assisted virtualization support--this of >> course is going to be the most difficult aspect of making this >> available to "average" users. A workaround may be possible but I'm >> not sure yet. >> >> Be aware also that the installer can take a few minutes to run (as >> much as 5 minutes even on a reasonably fast machine) mostly due to it >> being highly compressed. >> >> Anyways, I look forward to your questions and feedback! >> >> Thanks, >> Erik >> >> >> * I'm aware of the irony that I only just recently chided someone on >> this list for appearing dismissive of working on native Windows >> support for sage, while at the same time promoting a VM based solution >> for Windows :) Nonetheless I intend this only to be a temporary >> solution, albeit a nicer solution than currently exists for Windows. >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/wiki/D3.1-Virtual-images-and-containers#sagemath >> [2] https://github.com/embray/sage-windows/issues > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
