I feel one fairly big problem with the VMware installation is the sheer size of the binary to download. Other issues are performance; running a Sage server in a VMware session is noticeable slower than connecting to an on-line Linux version. Then there are some practical problems such as accessing the VMware file-system. After some playing around I managed to find a way to SSH to the server and see the files that way.
On 26 Jan, 03:10, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:04 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Is that September 2009? If we do not have something native on Windows > >> then we are in deep trouble. > > > The technical discussion above was very interesting, as I know little > > about Windows internals, and it sounds like tons of good work is going > > on with supporting so many architectures. I probably should have > > asked a less cryptic question, though, so I am sorry - here is the > > real one: > > > Will there be a sage.exe file (or something like that) that my > > students can download straight from sagemath.org and use right away on > > a Windows machine? > > > This would be similar to the .app solution that now exists for Mac > > (see #4817, the resolution of which would make 3.3 even more > > spectacular than it already is). I can't overemphasize how much this > > could transform the (silent) user base of Sage. > > > Re: Cygwin, I can convince a few hard-core students to download VMWare > > +VMWare Sage image, but those are the same ones I can convince to try > > using LaTeX for their homework ;) It seems like Cygwin might be about > > the same difficulty level for them as VMWare - i.e., not too hard but > > just inconvenient enough to discourage most students. Or is Cygwin > > easier than VMWare? I assume it at least doesn't have the downside of > > only having available whatever virtual memory is allocated. > > Just out of curiosity, what is so difficult about installing VMware + > VMware Sage? Let me break this down into two questions: > > (1) What are some things that are difficult about installing VMware? > This is a well-supported commercial product made by publicly traded > company with an operating budget in the hundreds of millions (or > more), so maybe it is easy to install? Or maybe it isn't? What > happens in practice? > > (2) What are some things that are difficult about running the VMware > Sage image? I mean extracting a zip file then double-clicking that > icon. What goes wrong that makes this so hard? > > Of course, I think there are many very good reasons for having a > native Windows port. I want to be aware of what we need to do to make > Sage easier to install on Windows, both now and in the long run. > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
