[sage-devel] Re: error building sage 2.9 on cygwin 1.5.24: tmp-dive_1.s:110: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_386_GOTPC

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
> I just tested and Sage prints a message informing the user that it > isn't supported, but then goes on happily :) > > While I am trying to compile Sage 2.9.1.1 on Cygwin I ran into the > same problem and the quite old binutils in Cygwin (2006/08) throw some > kind of assertion. I am compiling

[sage-devel] Re: optional octave package

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 27, 8:14 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 27, 2007 12:00 AM, mabshoff > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 7:43 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I tried to make an optional Octave-3.0.0 Sage spkg. I did *not* > > > s

[sage-devel] Re: optional octave package

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 27, 2007 12:00 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 27, 7:43 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to make an optional Octave-3.0.0 Sage spkg. I did *not* succeed. > > See > > > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1609 > > > >

[sage-devel] Re: Why does sage not use Qemu?

2007-12-26 Thread Ismail Dönmez
Thursday 27 December 2007 09:07:32 tarihinde William Stein şunları yazmıştı: > I just downloaded it on my OSX 10.5.1 MacbookPro, ran the nice > installer, then tried to run the program and it immediately crashes > with "VirtualBox - Critical Error: Failed to create the VirtualBox > COM object", an

[sage-devel] Re: Why does sage not use Qemu?

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 4:25 PM, Pablo De Nápoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another option is > > Virtualbox > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > It has an open source edition, released under GNU GPL version 2 > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions > I just downloaded it on my OSX 10.5.1 MacbookPro, r

[sage-devel] Re: optional octave package

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 27, 7:43 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to make an optional Octave-3.0.0 Sage spkg. I did *not* succeed. > See > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1609 > > in case you're curious or want to try to pick up where I left off. > Looking at th

[sage-devel] The Arizona Winter School

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
Hi, I'm one of the organizers of the Arizona Winter School, which will be March 15-19, 2008. If you're a US grad student doing number theory and you're reading this, you should apply for funding to come, since there will likely be a bunch of people working on Sage there (e.g., me, David Roe, Crai

[sage-devel] optional octave package

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
Hi, I tried to make an optional Octave-3.0.0 Sage spkg. I did *not* succeed. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1609 in case you're curious or want to try to pick up where I left off. -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington ht

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 3:22 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I might be able to help, at least after I get the last few days of > class out of the way. > > I made a design for a mug (I'm going to order through Snapfish, > although if we wanted more merchandise something like cafepress would > be

[sage-devel] Re: error building sage 2.9 on cygwin 1.5.24: tmp-dive_1.s:110: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_386_GOTPC

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 23, 3:44 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 23, 2007 4:05 AM, mabshoff > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 23, 11:58 am, Nasser Abbasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just downloaded sage 2.9 source code tar > > > fromhttp://www.sagemath.org/dist/src/i

[sage-devel] Re: Client side application idea: QT/Webkit + Notebook

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
yQT) that seems actively developed. Also, for what it is worth, > > > I've never seen so many developers speak so highly of a GUI toolkit as > > > I have seen for QT (I have little experience myself other than as a > > > user of many great QT applications). > >

[sage-devel] Re: Client side application idea: QT/Webkit + Notebook

2007-12-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a GUI toolkit as > > I have seen for QT (I have little experience myself other than as a > > user of many great QT applications). > > > For a recent review including QT/webkit, see: > >http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071226-first-look-qt-4-4-0-wit... > > >

[sage-devel] Re: Client side application idea: QT/Webkit + Notebook

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
r a recent review including QT/webkit, see: > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071226-first-look-qt-4-4-0-with-phonon-and-webkit.html > > I almost certainly won't have time to work on this much myself in the > near future, but thought I'd pass on the idea if anyone is

[sage-devel] Client side application idea: QT/Webkit + Notebook

2007-12-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
s speak so highly of a GUI toolkit as I have seen for QT (I have little experience myself other than as a user of many great QT applications). For a recent review including QT/webkit, see: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071226-first-look-qt-4-4-0-with-phonon-and-webkit.html I almost certa

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE Tutorial nits #2

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 27, 5:55 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added a link to a patch on the comment section > ofhttp://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1544 > It passes sage -t. > Hi David, I assume the bundle linked from #1544 also fixes #1602? If it is a single commit only could you attac

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE Tutorial nits #2

2007-12-26 Thread David Joyner
I added a link to a patch on the comment section of http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1544 It passes sage -t. + On Dec 16, 2007 10:22 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 17, 2:28 am, Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As reques

[sage-devel] Re: typo in sage tutorial

2007-12-26 Thread David Joyner
I added this to http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1544 and attached a patch. On Dec 26, 2007 8:18 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Matthew, > > Thanks for your bug report! > > Dear David Joyner (cc: sage-devel): > > This is in some latex that you wrote. Any ideas? Simply

[sage-devel] Re: nc algebra?

2007-12-26 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, > what about the non-commutative part of Singular (formerly known as > "Plural")? > Singular-Plural has one disadvantage though: It can not deal with free > algebras. You need a PBW-basis (see > > http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Manual/3-0-4/sing_417.htm#SEC457). I looked at the document

[sage-devel] Re: "math" and "maple" scripts on OSX?

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 18, 2007 11:21 AM, G. Edgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When someone gets around to writing an installer for SAGE in OS X, > this is something that can be tried there. > Gerald, Did you ever get the Sage <--> Maple interface to work for you on OS X? If it still isn't working, I can try

[sage-devel] Re: Jmol and Sage

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
[this is a response to an earlier message from Bob Hanson...] On Dec 24, 2007 10:27 PM, Bob Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, > > Ah, great. So you have been busy! I look forward to hearing about what you > have done. > Usually what happens is that projects such as yours take a snapsh

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [Jmol-developers] [sage-devel] Re: Jmol and Mathematics Visualization

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 26, 2007, at 7:02 PM, William Stein wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Dec 26, 2007 7:36 PM > Subject: Re: [Jmol-developers] [sage-devel] Re: Jmol and Mathematics > Visualization > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> We'v

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Re: [Jmol-developers] [sage-devel] Re: Jmol and MathematicsVisualization

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 8:45 PM, Robert Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: [Jmol-developers] [sage-devel] Re: Jmol and > MathematicsVisualization > Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:07:25 -0700 > From: "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: sage-devel@googlegr

[sage-devel] Fwd: Re: [Jmol-developers] [sage-devel] Re: Jmol and MathematicsVisualization

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Hanson
Original Message Subject: Re: [Jmol-developers] [sage-devel] Re: Jmol and MathematicsVisualization Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:07:25 -0700 From: "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sage-devel@googlegroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/t

[sage-devel] Re: jmol in Sage 2.9.1.1 -- tutorial and screen shots

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 26, 2007, at 7:20 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Dec 26, 2007 8:17 PM, Robert Bradshaw > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wasn't able to upgrade Sage: >> >> /Users/robert/sage/current/local/bin/sage-update: Error downloading >> http://www.sagemath.org//packages/standard/python-2.5.1.p10.sp

[sage-devel] Re: jmol in Sage 2.9.1.1 -- tutorial and screen shots

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 8:17 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wasn't able to upgrade Sage: > > /Users/robert/sage/current/local/bin/sage-update: Error downloading > http://www.sagemath.org//packages/standard/python-2.5.1.p10.spkg > Error getting new packages! Try again -- it will work.

[sage-devel] Re: 2D aspect ratio

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 4:20 PM, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been looking for a plot.option that ensures a 1:1 aspect ratio > for 2D plots (e.g. something like AspectRatio->Automatic in Mma). Does > this exist in Sage? I'm trying to set things up so that > > circle((0,0),2).show() >

[sage-devel] Re: jmol in Sage 2.9.1.1 -- tutorial and screen shots

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 26, 2007, at 6:58 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Dec 26, 2007 7:39 PM, Robert Bradshaw > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On Dec 26, 2007, at 6:35 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >>> On Dec 26, 2007 3:51 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I was going to try to understand

[sage-devel] Fwd: [Jmol-developers] [sage-devel] Re: Jmol and Mathematics Visualization

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 26, 2007 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [Jmol-developers] [sage-devel] Re: Jmol and Mathematics Visualization To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > We've run into some issues, > e.g., > > http://trac.sagemath

[sage-devel] Re: jmol in Sage 2.9.1.1 -- tutorial and screen shots

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 7:39 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 26, 2007, at 6:35 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > On Dec 26, 2007 3:51 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> So I was going to try to understand a bit of the jmol stuff and with > >> 2.9.1.1 I tried: > >> >

[sage-devel] Re: jmol in Sage 2.9.1.1 -- tutorial and screen shots

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 26, 2007, at 6:35 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Dec 26, 2007 3:51 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> So I was going to try to understand a bit of the jmol stuff and with >> 2.9.1.1 I tried: >> >> search_src('jmol') >> >> and a mild sort of hell broke loose: > > Did you do that

[sage-devel] Fwd: typo in sage tutorial

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
Dear Matthew, Thanks for your bug report! Dear David Joyner (cc: sage-devel): This is in some latex that you wrote. Any ideas? I've made this trac #1602: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1602 -- Forwarded message -- From: Matthew Moelter <> Date: Dec 26, 2007 4:

[sage-devel] Re: "noclobber" problem

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 5:23 PM, Rob Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I found out that I had the line "set noclobber" in both my .bashrc and > .bash_profile files. Removing that cleared up the problem. I have no > clue why I ever put added the line in the first place, nor why it > would have c

[sage-devel] Fwd: "noclobber" problem

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
This is a followup on that noclobber email I forwarded earlier... -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 26, 2007 5:23 PM Subject: Re: "noclobber" problem To: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I found out that I had the line "set noclobber" i

[sage-devel] Re: nc algebra?

2007-12-26 Thread Simon King
Dear Mike what about the non-commutative part of Singular (formerly known as "Plural")? Certainly Singular can do non-commutative Groebner bases (one-sided or two-sided). I mainly use it to compute cohomology rings of finite p- groups in Sage (work in progress). So what i need are graded commuta

[sage-devel] Re: 2D aspect ratio

2007-12-26 Thread Bobby Moretti
You can try: sage: circle((0,0),2).show(figsize=[x,y]) If x and y are the same, then you get a square figure, and the circle will look correctly This won't help you if you want to draw a rectangular window but preserve the 1:1 aspect. I guess aspect should be decoupled from the figure size in s

[sage-devel] Fwd: "noclobber" problem [with patch]

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
(Sent from my iPhone.) Begin forwarded message: > From: Rob Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: December 26, 2007 3:53:45 PM MST > To: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: "noclobber" problem > Reply-To: Robert Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, William, > > I have had trouble getting the

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-26 Thread gvol
>>> I am thinking for a long time already of writing an interpreter, in >>> Python of course, of the Mathematica >>> language: >> Such a language interpreter exists already, called MockMMA, I believe. >> Check with Richard Fateman. > Thanks for the tip, yes, we checked that (see the link from my

[sage-devel] Re: 2D aspect ratio

2007-12-26 Thread Mike Hansen
I'm not really familiar with the plotting code, but it should be doable since we use matplotlib. Here is an example of doing what you want with matplotlib: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/equal_aspect_ratio.py --Mike On 12/26/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been

[sage-devel] Re: Why does sage not use Qemu?

2007-12-26 Thread Pablo De Nápoli
Another option is Virtualbox http://www.virtualbox.org/ It has an open source edition, released under GNU GPL version 2 http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions Pablo > According to http://whttp://www.virtualbox.org/ww.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ QEMU on Windows is in > an alpha stage. So it se

[sage-devel] 2D aspect ratio

2007-12-26 Thread Peter
Hi, I've been looking for a plot.option that ensures a 1:1 aspect ratio for 2D plots (e.g. something like AspectRatio->Automatic in Mma). Does this exist in Sage? I'm trying to set things up so that circle((0,0),2).show() shows a circle rather than an ellipse, regardless of the plot window dime

[sage-devel] Fwd: cremona package under Sage

2007-12-26 Thread John Cremona
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26 Dec 2007 22:48 Subject: Re: cremona package under Sage To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I cannot help with any of that since I did none of the Sage-mwrank interface myself at all, and you have already found out more abo

[sage-devel] Re: jmol in Sage 2.9.1

2007-12-26 Thread mhampton
So I was going to try to understand a bit of the jmol stuff and with 2.9.1.1 I tried: search_src('jmol') and a mild sort of hell broke loose: [? 1h = [50;1H [K---\ --- | SAGE Version 2.9.1.1, Release Date: 2007-12-25

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org metadata

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I would guess that it has to do with subpages of a site having high pagerank, and getting categorized under the main site. Also, links from the front page, and relative size of the site compared to other alternatives (i.e. the probability of it being the "right" one) seem to have an influe

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-forum] nc algebra?

2007-12-26 Thread Mike Hansen
I did a bit of playing around with the GAP package GBNP. It is pretty nice, but the interface is a little clunky. I think it could easily provide a lot of functionality to Sage so I am going to spend some of my time at the AMS meeting working on this. I made a very basic spkg at http://sage.mat

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org metadata

2007-12-26 Thread Timothy Clemans
I've tried to figure that out in the past. The best I can come up with is that it has to do with the size of a site and Google sitemaps. On Dec 26, 12:43 pm, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you google for "mathematica", at the top of the search results > you get this a bunch of ext

[sage-devel] sagemath.org metadata

2007-12-26 Thread David Harvey
When you google for "mathematica", at the top of the search results you get this a bunch of extra links ("Students", "Mathematica Home Page", "Demonstrations Project", etc.) I'm not sure how this works, I guess it's some meta-data in the html of the mathematica website. I'm sure someone on

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 26, 6:22 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 26, 2007 6:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 25, 2007 3:32 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What are your thoughts - especially from the social point of view - is > > > it

[sage-devel] Re: Projects

2007-12-26 Thread John Cremona
Sorry about that -- I think both volumes possibly have the full contents to both volumes in them. Anyway, I would recommend both volumes, and hope you do not regret your purchase. John On 26/12/2007, bill.p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 21, 10:59 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[sage-devel] Re: "scholarly activity"?

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 25, 2007 2:54 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 25, 2007 1:38 AM, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >I just noticed this email on the jmol developer mailing list. See below. > > >[...] > > > > I've been presenting Axiom development at various locations, usuall

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-26 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 26, 2007 6:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2007 3:32 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are your thoughts - especially from the social point of view - is > > it a bad or good idea? > > Duh. Of course it would be a very valuable thing to have

[sage-devel] Re: Projects

2007-12-26 Thread bill.p
On Nov 21, 10:59 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William suggested that I wrote a paragraph or two describing what > would be involved for the S-integralpoints implementation. I have > not done so yet, but this email might contain enough to get someone > started, I spent some tim

[sage-devel] Re: your kernel on newserver is seriously misconfigured

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 9:07 AM, Cameron Freer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Michael Abshoff wrote: > > > Use cpufreq-set to set the governor to performance for *all* CPUs. Setting > > it only for a subset will make the ATLAS build fail with high probability. > > > > see http://www.thi

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 25, 2007 3:32 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are your thoughts - especially from the social point of view - is > it a bad or good idea? Duh. Of course it would be a very valuable thing to have. This thread shouldn't be about whether to do this but _how_. At a bare

[sage-devel] Re: ATLAS build failure

2007-12-26 Thread Ismail Dönmez
Hi Michael, > Hi Ismail, > > or do you prefer cartman? Ismail is better for email :-) > > Any power management module is loaded? > > Ubuntu loads them per default. I guess they do so to keep the amount > of energy that is wasted by unloaded servers to a minimum. I guessed so too, and it makes

[sage-devel] Re: ATLAS build failure

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 26, 5:03 pm, Ismail Dönmez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wednesday 26 December 2007 17:39:41 tarihinde William Stein şunları yazmıştı: > > > Hi Michael, > > > I just attempted to build Sage on some fancy new 16-core 32GB RAM > > opteron box running Ubuntu at Harvard, > > and it fails in bu

[sage-devel] Re: ATLAS build failure

2007-12-26 Thread Ismail Dönmez
Wednesday 26 December 2007 17:39:41 tarihinde William Stein şunları yazmıştı: > Hi Michael, > > I just attempted to build Sage on some fancy new 16-core 32GB RAM > opteron box running Ubuntu at Harvard, > and it fails in building Sage. The machine is completely unloaded, > but ATLAS fails to buil

[sage-devel] Re: ATLAS build failure

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 26, 4:39 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi, > I just attempted to build Sage on some fancy new 16-core 32GB RAM > opteron box running Ubuntu at Harvard, > and it fails in building Sage. The machine is completely unloaded, > but ATLAS fails to build every t

[sage-devel] "sage" google pagerank

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
Hi, Right now in the US if you search for "sage" in Google then sagemath.org comes up first.Finally! -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send

[sage-devel] ATLAS build failure

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
Hi Michael, I just attempted to build Sage on some fancy new 16-core 32GB RAM opteron box running Ubuntu at Harvard, and it fails in building Sage. The machine is completely unloaded, but ATLAS fails to build every time with tolerance errors. I put the log file here: http://sage.math

[sage-devel] Re: vmware

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 25, 2007 9:35 PM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am visiting at a relative's house. I tried uploading the tested > vmware image twice, but the DSL connection dropped the upload both > times. > > Unfortunately, it looks like someone else will need to test the image :-( OK. I jus

[sage-devel] Re: Why does sage not use Qemu?

2007-12-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I recall correctly, you can use a disk image utility included with QEMU to convert a vmware image to one usable by QEMU, or even an image that can be written directly to disk (e.g. via the dd command). On Dec 26, 8:52 am, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have used Q

[sage-devel] Re: Why does sage not use Qemu?

2007-12-26 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi there, I have used QEMU extensively in the past and I agree it is a wonderful piece of software. Also, you can basically use QEMU as KVM to get better performance under linux. We use VMWare mainly to deploy Sage for Windows. For this situation we don't care too much if the virtualisation/e