On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:41 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 11:53:51 AM UTC, aishen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunatly it doesn't work on an intel core II pentium I have, it says >>>>> it can't do virtualization... >>>> >>>> >>>> you might need to change BIOS settings to allow virtialization. >>>> >>> >>> The sysadmin at work tried this on a intel windows 7 machine, with the >>> BIOS setting for hardware virtualization checked, and it gave the >>> error "Could not start Docker VM". >>> >>> Further, no VM was installed on this machine. >>> >>> Any idea what the error was caused by? >> >> No, there are probably myriad reasons it could go wrong. Were they >> able to install Docker Toolbox just by itself? >
It did install Docker into the registry (so one could uninstall it, which we did when trying a second time to install SageMath). However, after "Could not start Docker VM" it said "backing out" or something like that. > It also sounds like a possible known failure mode is if some version > of VirtualBox is already installed on the system but is too old. Try > uninstalling any existing VirtualBox first. > No VM at all was installed. I'm not a windows user and this wasn't my machine. >>>>> Le mercredi 23 mars 2016 12:15:58 UTC+1, Erik Bray a écrit : >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I've been working for a few weeks on an installer for Sage on Windows, >>>>>> which takes advantage of Docker to accomplish this.* The goal of this >>>>>> project is to make it possible to run Sage on Windows with as much >>>>>> transparency as possible, such that the user isn't really aware that >>>>>> there is any virtualization involved. As you can read in my report >>>>>> for the OpenDreamKit project on Docker containers [1] there are limits >>>>>> to this. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, in the ideal case a user simply downloads and runs an >>>>>> executable--clicks through a graphical install wizard, and then gets a >>>>>> desktop icon which launches a Jupyter notebook (with sage and terminal >>>>>> support) in their default web browser. Although there are still a few >>>>>> rough edges [2] the alpha version of the Sage for Windows installer >>>>>> that I have for you today does just that: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://github.com/embray/sage-windows/releases/download/v1a1/SageMath-7.0-1a1-fat.exe >>>>>> >>>>>> My hope is for this to eventually be adopted into the SageMath project >>>>>> as the "official" distribution for Windows, replacing the existing >>>>>> VM-based solution as I believe that this gives an overall >>>>>> lighter-weight and more transparently "native" user experience. In >>>>>> the future the same approach could also be adopted--I think--to >>>>>> provide a "local" installation of SMC. >>>>>> >>>>>> Now, if anyone with access to a Windows machine (Windows 7 or newer), >>>>>> it would be a big favor if I could get a few testers to bang this >>>>>> around a bit and see what breaks and what works and what could be >>>>>> improved. >>>>>> >>>>>> To be clear, right now it only supports running the notebook, though >>>>>> I'm also working on making it possible to run `sage` at a Windows >>>>>> command prompt (almost working). Also be aware if you try to test >>>>>> this: The biggest limitation for now (as described also in [1]) is >>>>>> that for Docker on Windows hardware virtualization support is required >>>>>> to be enabled. If this is not enabled the most likely outcome is that >>>>>> the installer will fail with an error message like "Could not start >>>>>> Docker VM". In this case you will have to grub around in your BIOS >>>>>> settings to find hardware assisted virtualization support--this of >>>>>> course is going to be the most difficult aspect of making this >>>>>> available to "average" users. A workaround may be possible but I'm >>>>>> not sure yet. >>>>>> >>>>>> Be aware also that the installer can take a few minutes to run (as >>>>>> much as 5 minutes even on a reasonably fast machine) mostly due to it >>>>>> being highly compressed. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyways, I look forward to your questions and feedback! >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Erik >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "sage-devel" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
