On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:41 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 11:53:51 AM UTC, aishen wrote: >>> >>> Unfortunatly it doesn't work on an intel core II pentium I have, it says >>> it can't do virtualization... >> >> >> you might need to change BIOS settings to allow virtialization. >> > > The sysadmin at work tried this on a intel windows 7 machine, with the > BIOS setting for hardware virtualization checked, and it gave the > error "Could not start Docker VM". > > Further, no VM was installed on this machine. > > Any idea what the error was caused by?
No, there are probably myriad reasons it could go wrong. Were they able to install Docker Toolbox just by itself? >>> Le mercredi 23 mars 2016 12:15:58 UTC+1, Erik Bray a écrit : >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> > > -- > 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.
