Maybe the VM can be built to contain Grive, a Linux client for Google Drive, and then students can save the stuff there, without fiddling with flash drives crap...
On Thursday, 19 July 2012 11:05:33 UTC+8, kcrisman wrote: > > > > 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
