On 8/25/07, biozan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using Windows XP computer and I would like to use SAGE on it. > > I've installed VMware at the moment but it is not allowing me to read > files that I have saved in the SAGE-VMware folder that I downloaded > from the sage.org site. I am unable to find the right folder to place > my files so that I load them unto SAGE in VMware.
VMware does support a notion of "Shared Folders" which basically gives a running vmware machine the capability of reading and writing files stored under Windows. I don't think the VMware image for SAGE has been specifically configured to make this easy (or tested doing this). I can look into this tomorrow. Another option I hope to investigate is to instead run SAGE in virtual pc -- I don't know if it supports shared folders... > I've read (somewhere) that coLinux is a better program to run SAGE on > and that I'll have better access to my files so I can load and run > them in SAGE. My experience with coLinux wasn't very good (it crashes computers a lot!), etc. Running SAGE in coLinux is no longer officially supported, though you could certainly download and install coLinux, then download a SAGE-for-Linux binary and extract it into coLinux and it might work. > Please tell me which program is better for me to load and run files on > SAGE. If it's coLinux, how do I install the coLinux version of SAGE on > my computer? If it's VMware, how to do load and run my files in SAGE? > > (I know this may sound like a stupid question, but I really need to > know how to do this.) It is definitely not a stupid question. The SAGE developers haven't put nearly enough effort into making the experience of running SAGE in windows via a virtual machine sufficiently flexible (the problem is probably that none of the developers run SAGE that way). William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
