[sage-support] Re: installing sage on a windows7 machine

2011-12-16 Thread carl.e
On Dec 16, 12:55 pm, Volker Braun wrote: > On Friday, December 16, 2011 6:32:01 PM UTC, carl.e wrote: > > > But in order to install VirtualBox first, I had > > to decide to ignore the dire warnings from microsoft, namely that > > virtualbox was untested, and its installa

[sage-support] installing sage on a windows7 machine

2011-12-16 Thread carl.e
Hello, I am getting a windows 7 laptop soon, and was told there is a built-in VM manager already in windows 7. Has anyone had experience with using that instead of VirtualBox to install sage4.7.2? The sage that I installed on my xp laptop using VirtualBox works fine. But in order to install Virtu

[sage-support] Re: security question with sage 4.7.2 installation

2011-12-01 Thread carl.e
Good. I did see that the VirtualBox networking is set to NAT That must be the default setting. Thanks to you all for the helpful suggestions. On Dec 1, 4:05 am, Volker Braun wrote: > Short answer: This is safe as long as you keep the networking settings > ("NAT") in the virtual machine the way t

[sage-support] security question with sage 4.7.2 installation

2011-11-30 Thread carl.e
Hello, I have installed Sage 4.7.2 on my windows xp desktop using Virtualbox. It runs fine, but I get this disturbing warning message as the notebook fires up: WARNING: Insecure server listening on external interface. Unless you are running this via ssh port forwarding, you are Crazy. You shou