On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 2:21:32 PM UTC, Stan wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> A student of mine has been using SMC because the sage appliance in 
> virtualbox did not appear very useful with the jupyter notebook. Now that 
> he encountered a critical bug in SMC (reported offline), he is back with 
> the sage appliance in VB but it is truly a nightmare. The installation 
> instructions are still specific for sagews, not jupyter, but we at least 
> managed to change the working directory to something he can access. What we 
> haven't managed, is to get out of the kiosk mode in chrome. There is no 
> obvious possibility of opening several tabs, no address bar to get back to 
> the directory page and no back button. This means that every time he wants 
> to go back, e.g. after downloading the worksheet, he has to restart the 
> virtual machine! I don't understand why chrome was chosen instead of 
> firefox, and I have no idea why it is set up in kiosk mode. Is there any 
> sensible way to productively work with the sage appliance using the now 
> standard jupyter notebook?? I'm sorry if my frustration shows in these 
> lines, I probably should have asked earlier, but I am wondering a bit if 
> those that created the sage appliance actually use it themselves.
>

I think you are right, there aren't any known to me Sage devs who develop 
on Windows...

A better way to run Sage in a VM is via (host) network, so that you use the 
native web browser to access notebooks, while
VM would be running a server. This is more or less clear how to set up for 
sagews; I don't know enough about jupyter
to say how it can be done so that the web interface is not on 
localhost:8888 (but it looks as it is doable).

Dima 
 



 

> I don't, which is why it never occurred to me how difficult to use it 
> might be. Thanks for your help!
>
> Cheers
> Stan
>

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