Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar and XS in VirtualBox
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: o XS school server (but I have not fully configured it and tested it with XOs) Not sure how the strange expectations on networking gear the XS has will play on the VM. But I can recommend: - using the experimental 0.6 img files, which are preinstalled ext3 images. - if you give the VM only one NIC, you'll want to use xs-swapnics (+ reboot) to make it the LAN NIC. You can setup two NICs in virtualbox with one bridged or NAT and the other on an internal network. Then you can connect other VMs running sugar to the internal network and it works as expected. - if your VM networking infra wants to handle dhcp and routing, them hummm, I don't know what to suggest. the XS wants to run the network and it won't be easy to talk him out of it. I have got this working for simple testing, where everything is running on one NIC, and DHCP is handled by my wireless router, but I forgot exactly what I did. I'll try to figure it out and post. It's good for testing. Dave hth, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com http://www.solutiongrove.com ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar and XS in VirtualBox
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Of the .iso images I have tried in VirtualBox, the following worked correctly as far as I have gone with them: o Debian (with only a few Sugar packages available) o Fedora (with Sugar packages) o Caixa Mágica (but I have not installed Sugar yet) o Fedora Sugar Spin (Select Sugar session before logging in) o SoaS 20090503 o Fedora 11 build for XO (preliminary to XO 1.5 builds) o XS school server (but I have not fully configured it and tested it with XOs) The following fail: o SoaS Beta (Crashes during boot) o sugar-jhbuild (X not configured) I have put my notes on the Emulator Image Files page in the Wiki. Please let me know if you would like further details of any of these, which I intend to use for further testing. Now that I have an adequate set of functioning images, I intend to practice setting up shares and learning how to use virtual USB drives in VirtualBox. My plan has been to develop various sorts of learning material in VirtualBox, and extract the saved files from the Journal to put into lesson plans in Moodle. Once I can do all of that, I may need some technical assistance with the plan that follows, to make it easy for content developers to set up Sugar in emulation and move lesson plans in and out without having to understand setting up VirtualBox themselves. Very nice. Well running and well documented usage of Sugar on various distros in VirtualBox will make it _much_ easier to appeal to larger testing, content authoring, and developer audiences. david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
