On May 13, 8:15 am, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote a script to create a virtual machine with Sage and export it as an > OVA appliance. I'm using VirtualBox but I think VMware should support it, > too. At this point it would be useful if people could try it out on a > variety of host machines.
Functionally, it works. Sage starts up, I could connect to the Notebook from my host's Firefox, do "2+2", and surf the documentation. I didn't run doctests or stress test it in any way. I have VirtualBox 4.0.6 (non-free extension pack not installed) on Windows XP SP3. I did not touch the configuration when importing, so the guest was set to use 2048 MB of memory, 2 CPUs, and was 64-bit. The host has 4 GB of memory and an Intel Core 2 Duo. Although nothing seems broken, I do have a few complaints. First, the boot time is quite terrible. The time from my pressing "Start" on the VirtualBox interface to seeing the login prompt was 1 minute 43 seconds. By comparison, my 32-bit Debian installation (in the same VirtualBox) takes only 30 seconds; it is a rather minimal installation. Secondly, this Fedora installation seems rather bloated. When I shutdown the guest, there are messages saying that the sshd and sendmail daemons are stopping; but why should they be running in the first place? I believe that is part of the reason the booting is so slow. Thirdly, could the space in the name of the OVA appliance (Sage 4.7.rc2) be removed? When importing, the VM is placed in a directory called "Sage 4.7.rc2", so I end up with a space in the directory name. I also tried VMware Player, but upon attempting to open the OVA appliance, I got an error message: "Failed to open virtual machine: Failed to query source for information." Same thing happened in VMware Workstation. After a brief Bing search, I could not figure out what these messages meant. I have only briefly glanced over the build script, but I think this is a good first iteration! -- Kelvin -- 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
