Using my stripped binaries http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/7d911e59a649eaf6 and the base distribution of the Live CD, I have managed to build a virtual machine from sage (version 4.6, size zipped 407 MB, size unzipped 468 MB). This is a reduction of roughly 60% compared to the full vm image.
I uploaded the file vm-sage-lithe-a1.zip to: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/emil/sagelithe/vm-sage-lithe-a1.zip A screenshot: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/emil/doc/html/en/pictures/virtual_machineBIG.jpg ----- Technical Data (small vm image / current sage vm image): Virtual RAM: 512 MB / 512 MB Virtual Disk size: 4GB / 8 GB Virtual Swapspace: 512 MB (swapfile) / 1 GB (partition) VMTools installed: no / yes Jave RE: yes / yes R - plotting: yes / no Matplotlib-gui: yes-TclTk / no hostname: vm-sagelithe user: root passwd: woofwoof (it's Puppy Linux) admin password for sage notebook: sage As reported I have4 failing doctests on my stripped binaries, but I accept this as a "user only" version, no development intended in the VM. Also creating cython code is not possible. It was hardest for me to get the network interface working between the virtual machine and the host system. I use the following startup script which uses a nonsecure http. Please comment if this is possible in local network. -- #!/bin/sh export SAGE_BROWSER=seamonkey IP=$(ifconfig eth0| grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1 }') IPINFO=$(printf "Use http://%s to connect to the Sage Notebook Server!" "$IP") xterm -geometry 120x9 -e sage -notebook port=80 address=$IP require_login=False open_viewer=True & gtkdialog-splash -text "$IPINFO" -bg lightblue -fontsize large -close never -placement bottom & ---- There is still room for size reduction, because the base distro is same as live CD, I just titied up the desktop a bit (less icons). So there are still lots of applications included which are not really necessary in the vm-image (media players, flash installed, gnumerics). Some of the applications may be usefull, because there are plenty of network tools (incl. samba client / server, ftp client/server). Also the minimum possible virtual RAM is probably lower, around 375 MB, this could be important if the vm is to run on older, "Ram challenged" hardware. Feedback and even *testing* appreciated! kind regards emil -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
