This was what I was thinking, too, but we need a gui to run in the web browser to set up credentials. Which is why I'd really like a plugin system for the notebook. If the grive instructions include "log into the console and paste in some url that you copy from the web browser" then we might just as well tell people to use scp.
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:59:07 AM UTC-4, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > 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
