On Monday, June 21, 2010, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Jun 17, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Calcpage wrote: > > > Why set up a virtual box when you have linux? > > > For security reasons. > > > > Regards, > A. Jorge Garcia > Applied Math & CS > http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com > Sent from my iPod > > On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Bruce Cohen <math.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It's summertime, and I thought I would have time to build a Sage > server for my 65 (or so) calculus students. I have a Ubuntu box > running 10.04 and using dynamic dns, I should be able to be able to > point my students to the site. Using virtual box, I assume not much > damage can be done to the host machine. Dan and Jason's > contributions > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEnoughSageServer > http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageVirtualBox > > are a good place to start, but it have spent an entire afternoon > unsuccessfully get a VBox up and runner. > > It appears that VBox has changed, I found this > http://tuxnetworks.blogspot.com/2010/05/howto-virtualbox-31-headless-on-lucid.html > blog on Vbox is be useful. > > I am looking for more guidance. Perhaps someone could make a VBox > appliance Sageserver available in much the same way as is currently > used for local windoze machines. > > > We've switched back to using VMWare again. Probably the easiest would be to > get a generic virtualbox image, and install Sage into it directly (either the > binary or from source). >
Yes, I agree. In fact, I build many of the sage binaries on VirtualBox virtual machines. William > - Robert > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-edu" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
