Re: [IAEP] SUGAR DESKTOP on Intel Mac's an alternate solution.

2009-05-25 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Lucian; My experience has been that a VM Appliance with player is quite a bit faster and needs less computer resources than Virtual Box OSE. I have only been working on Ubuntu (9.04 8.04), Fedora 10,11 windows XP as host OS so far. I have made USB sticks with a very small 1 gb Appliance

Re: [IAEP] SUGAR DESKTOP on Intel Mac's an alternate solution.

2009-05-25 Thread Dave Bauer
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Lucian; My experience has been that a VM Appliance with player is quite a bit faster and needs less computer resources than Virtual Box OSE. VMWare Player does not exist for OS X so that is not an

Re: [IAEP] SUGAR DESKTOP on Intel Mac's an alternate solution.

2009-05-25 Thread Lucian Branescu
No fiddling required actually. Click import, choose file, boot. VirtualBox is very fast with VT-x and AMD-V. 2009/5/25 Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Lucian; My experience has been that a VM Appliance

[IAEP] SUGAR DESKTOP on Intel Mac's an alternate solution.

2009-05-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Hi; There is an possible alternate, interim, solution to let Intel Macs run SUGAR. *Emulation of Fedora 11 SUGAR DESKTOP Appliances.* The procedures to make the Appliances and boot sticks are documented in the wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware The VMware web site to get the MAC

Re: [IAEP] SUGAR DESKTOP on Intel Mac's an alternate solution.

2009-05-24 Thread Sean DALY
The VirtualBox procedure is reliable, I use that and works fine with the new version of VirtualBox I was prompted to install this week. I believe ars technica took their screenshots of Sugar running in VirtualBox on a Mac. Until such a time as we can propose a pancke-button one-click installer