On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:40:41 PM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: > > You can just run > > VBoxManage startvm "Sage-5.0" > > from a script and it'll fire up that Virtual Machine. > > Thanks.
I assume that it's not possible to have Sage start with just the one click from a pre-installed VM, at this time? (Assuming we don't use Emil's solution of the self-installing Linux partition!) Here's one user's comments: ++ 1) Fire up Virtual Box (only one click if there's an icon on the desktop, which I THINK we can have happen for everyone). 2) Fire up Sage inside Virtual Box (only one click, I think). 3) Be told that the mouse doesn't work anymore (even though it demonstrably does), and have to click "okay". 3) Wait a LONG time (about 1.5 minutes) while lots of scary stuff is printed on the screen, including "Booting 'Fedora Linux", etc. It's actually worse when there is a blank, black wondow, and nothing else is happening. During that endless 90 seconds, I had to click "okay" three separate times when being told again that "mouse pointer integration" was not supported. 4) now we have a normal Sage notebook screen (see attached screenshot1), whew. ++ Fine for personal use, but not so great for a lab. > Are the lab computers really scrubbed without any permanent storage for > the students? This seems rather user-unfriendly. I've broken too many flash > drives ;-) > > I think it's more a security issue. Students download all KINDS of stuff onto computers. I'm sure others on this list would know more. > You could run the gui user in the VM guest in a shared folder, and set up > VirtualBox host to take the USB stick as the shared folder. But then you > can't open the VM without the USB stick plugged, thats a pretty bad > usability wart imho. We certainly can't make that the default in the VM > that we offer on sagemath.org > > So you are saying that people currently would have to save their sws to this shared folder, then resave it/move it from there to somewhere else (like a USB drive) in the Windows file manager? A little annoying. > I'm currently looking into writing some small gui to set up the VM and set > up shared folders / save worksheets but its not there yet. > Would be awesome, but does sound hard. Thanks for the details! -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
