I am running Sage 4.2.1 on a old 1GB ram XP computer with the VirtualBox binary distribution. In the notebook if I try a 3D graph Firefox shuts down and kills the Sage session. This is the same problem I had with the VirtualBox Sage version 4.2.
I have also created a separate Ubuntu 9.1 vm in VirtualBox, where I loaded all the stuff needed to run and compile Sage 4.21. This included the FireFox upgrades needed to run the 3D plots from a notebook. To this vm I added a second network connection which is a VirtualBox host only, just like in the binary VirtualBox Sage 4.21. I compiled Sage 4.21. When I run the notebook sage using the Firefox inside the Ubuntu 9.1 vm everything works great and I get 3D graphs. I can also start a Sage notebook with a IP address and access it from my Windows Firefox. This works fine until I run a 3D graph and then the windows Firefox closes down, just like in the binary distribution for VirtualBox Sage 4.21. However, if I start Firefox in Ubuntu I can get into the same sheet and run the 3D graph with no problem and Sage has not shut down. I suspect the problem with the 3D graph is from the VirtualBox host connection. I don't know if it is just because of my XP system. In general I like the VirtualBox system better than VMware. However, for users with old XP systems it is a problem. Below I included my system specs. Mike Intel Celeron M 1.5 GHz, 1 GB Ram Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 3 VirtualBox 3.0.10 results from cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 1476.382 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx up bogomips : 3007.50 -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
