On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
It also sounds like a possible known failure mode is if some version of VirtualBox is already installed on the system but is too old. Try uninstalling any existing VirtualBox first. >>>> 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.
