On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:46 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 2:21:32 PM UTC, Stan wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> A student of mine has been using SMC because the sage appliance in >>> virtualbox did not appear very useful with the jupyter notebook. Now that he >>> encountered a critical bug in SMC (reported offline), he is back with the >>> sage appliance in VB but it is truly a nightmare. The installation >>> instructions are still specific for sagews, not jupyter, but we at least >>> managed to change the working directory to something he can access. What we >>> haven't managed, is to get out of the kiosk mode in chrome. There is no >>> obvious possibility of opening several tabs, no address bar to get back to >>> the directory page and no back button. This means that every time he wants >>> to go back, e.g. after downloading the worksheet, he has to restart the >>> virtual machine! I don't understand why chrome was chosen instead of >>> firefox, and I have no idea why it is set up in kiosk mode. Is there any >>> sensible way to productively work with the sage appliance using the now >>> standard jupyter notebook?? I'm sorry if my frustration shows in these >>> lines, I probably should have asked earlier, but I am wondering a bit if >>> those that created the sage appliance actually use it themselves. >> >> >> I think you are right, there aren't any known to me Sage devs who develop on >> Windows... >> >> A better way to run Sage in a VM is via (host) network, so that you use the >> native web browser to access notebooks, while >> VM would be running a server. This is more or less clear how to set up for >> sagews; I don't know enough about jupyter >> to say how it can be done so that the web interface is not on localhost:8888 >> (but it looks as it is doable).
I'm very surprised the VM doesn't *already* work that way, starting up, starting a server, and just displaying on screen that one should visit a certain URL. It did when I used to make the VM. William > > sage -ipython notebook --no-browser --ip=0.0.0.0 > > -- William > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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.
