[sage-support] Failure to import Sage-4.7.ova into VirtualBox under Win7

I installed the newly-released VirtualBox 4.0.10 on my 2-years-old Windows 7 machine, which has 8 GB of RAM. I then downloaded Sage-4.7.ova (dated 2011-06-22) and verified its MD5 sum against that in the file md5sums.txt . But upon attempting to import the .ova file into VirtualBox, I received th

[sage-support] Can't get away from Sage 3.4 login prompt to start notebook

I am a (would-be) new user of Sage. My Athlon-processor desktop computer uses Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 3. To protect against malware, I use the Symantec Endpoint Protection program, which seems to be an institutional version of the Norton internet security products.