[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.7 VirtualBox image

2011-06-08 Thread RegB
I tried the .ova file with VirtualBox and it worked perfectly. I tried it with VMware Player and it refused to load. It is probably a likes/dis-likes personal preference thing, but I liked using just another tab in my already running browser on the host machine. n Jun 7, 4:54 pm, "Nicolas M. Thi

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.7 VirtualBox image

2011-06-04 Thread ancienthart
I'm in Australia, so I'll have to throw my five cents in instead. Like Kelvin, I much prefer the text-only setup, as I prefer to run the browser from within windows. This allows me to start up the server in virtualbox, and then just minimise and forget. Joal Heagney -- To post to this group, s

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.7 VirtualBox image

2011-06-04 Thread Nils Bruin
On Jun 4, 9:57 am, Volker Braun wrote: > The disadvantage is that we can't automatically open a > browser from the sage process with a magic url, so the user has to log in > manually. Someone with experience in developing windows software could probably easily produce a windows program/script tha

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.7 VirtualBox image

2011-06-03 Thread Kelvin Li
>  - It would be good to choose once for all a strategy: either to have >    a full linux distro, and expect the user to use firefox within the >    virtual machine (as for 4.6), or to have a text-only linux distro, >    and expect the user to connect to the notebook server from its >    Windows br