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Deployment Team/Places

2009-11-21T17:38:46Z

Jose Icaza:

<noinclude>{{GoogleTrans-en}}{{TeamHeader|Deployment Team}}{{TOCright}}</noinclude>
=== Introduction ===

This page lists the places in the world where Sugar is used along with a contact person that will facilitate communication between the global and the local communities.

The column "# of members" is intended to give a rough estimation of the size of the local community and may include children, educators, parents, volunteers, etc

=== Asia ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| India
| English, Hindi, Marathi
| 32
| [[USER:Jpritikin|Joshua Pritikin]]
|-
| Nepal
| Nepali
| 40
| [[USER:BryanWB|Bryan Berry]], Rabi Karmacharya
|-
| Quezon City, Philippines
| Filipino, English
| 30
| [[USER:Jgotangco|Jerome Gotangco]]
|-
| BanSamka, Thailand
| Thai
| ~30 OLPC XO (beta-2 machines?)
| Arnan Sipitakiat?
|}

=== Africa ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! Software
! Hardware
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Ethiopia
| Amharic
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| ?
|-
| Rwanda
| English?
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| David Cavallo?
|-
| Nigeria
| English?
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Schumberger?
|}

=== America ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! Software
! Hardware
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Colombia
| Spanish
| Fedora 11/Sugar - LiveCDs - SOAS
| Desktop PCs
| 7
| RafaelOrtiz
|-
| Peru
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Hernan Pachas?
|-
| Uruguay
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Pablo Flores?
|-
| Paraguay
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| 4500
| Raul Gutierrez S.
|-
| Chiapas, Mexico
| Spanish, Tzotzil
| SoaS Strawberry on SD cards + ejabberd server
| Classmate Convertible
| 44, three rural classrooms
| [[User:Jose Icaza|Jose I. Icaza]]; [http://sites.google.com/site/tecnotzotzil TecnoTzotzil] project site in English
|-
| Bermingham, AL, USA
| English
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| ?
|-
| Boston, MA, USA
| English
| SoaS Strawberry (0.84)
| HP EVO 500 desktops
| ?
| Caroline Meeks
|}

=== Europe ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of Sugar installations
! Hardware used
! Software version
! Project blog/wiki
! Contact
|-
| Graz, Austria
| German
| 25
| XO-1
| build 767
| [http://elearningblog.phst.at/?cat=32 blog] (in German)
| David Van Assche, [[User:ChristophD|Christoph Derndorfer]]
|-
| London, United Kingdom
| English
| 30
| XO-1
| build 802
| [http://olpc.org.uk/ blog], [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-uk mailing list], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_UK wiki]
| [[User:PeterRobinson|Peter Robinson]], [[User:MartinDengler|Martin Dengler]]
|-
| Brescia, Italy
| Italian
| ?
| XO-1
| ?
| [http://escuola.provincia.brescia.it/olpc/ website] (in Italian)
| ?
|-
| Milan, Italy
| Italian
| 30
| XO-1
| build 802
| none
| Comunità Nuova/Barrio's - Mario Lenelli (?)
|}

=== Oceania ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Solomon Islands
| Pijin, Marovo
| ?
| David Leeming?
|}

=== See also ===

See also [[OLPC:Deployments]]

Deployment Team/Places

2009-09-30T00:34:26Z

Jose Icaza:

<noinclude>{{GoogleTrans-en}}{{TeamHeader|Deployment Team}}{{TOCright}}</noinclude>
=== Introduction ===

This page lists the places in the world where Sugar is used along with a contact person that will facilitate communication between the global and the local communities.

The column "# of members" is intended to give a rough estimation of the size of the local community and may include children, educators, parents, volunteers, etc

=== Asia ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| India
| English, Hindi, Marathi
| 32
| [[USER:Jpritikin|Joshua Pritikin]]
|-
| Nepal
| Nepali
| 40
| [[USER:BryanWB|Bryan Berry]], Rabi Karmacharya
|-
| Quezon City, Philippines
| Filipino, English
| 30
| [[USER:Jgotangco|Jerome Gotangco]]
|-
| BanSamka, Thailand
| Thai
| ~30 OLPC XO (beta-2 machines?)
| Arnan Sipitakiat?
|}

=== Africa ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! Software
! Hardware
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Ethiopia
| Amharic
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| ?
|-
| Rwanda
| English?
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| David Cavallo?
|-
| Nigeria
| English?
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Schumberger?
|}

=== America ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! Software
! Hardware
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Colombia
| Spanish
| Fedora 11/Sugar - LiveCDs - SOAS
| Desktop PCs
| 7
| RafaelOrtiz
|-
| Peru
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Hernan Pachas?
|-
| Uruguay
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Pablo Flores?
|-
| Paraguay
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| 4500
| Raul Gutierrez S.
|-
| Chiapas, Mexico
| Spanish, Tzotzil
| SoaS Strawberry on SD cards + ejabberd server
| Classmate Convertible
| 30, two rural classrooms
| [[User:Jose Icaza|Jose I. Icaza]]; [http://sites.google.com/site/tecnotzotzil TecnoTzotzil] project site in English
|-
| Bermingham, AL, USA
| English
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| ?
|-
| Boston, MA, USA
| English
| SoaS Strawberry (0.84)
| HP EVO 500 desktops
| ?
| Caroline Meeks
|}

=== Europe ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of Sugar installations
! Hardware used
! Software version
! Project blog/wiki
! Contact
|-
| Graz, Austria
| German
| 25
| XO-1
| build 767
| [http://elearningblog.phst.at/?cat=32 blog] (in German)
| David Van Assche, [[User:ChristophD|Christoph Derndorfer]]
|-
| London, United Kingdom
| English
| 30
| XO-1
| build 802
| [http://olpc.org.uk/ blog], [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-uk mailing list], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_UK wiki]
| [[User:PeterRobinson|Peter Robinson]], [[User:MartinDengler|Martin Dengler]]
|-
| Brescia, Italy
| Italian
| ?
| XO-1
| ?
| [http://escuola.provincia.brescia.it/olpc/ website] (in Italian)
| ?
|-
| Milan, Italy
| Italian
| 30
| XO-1
| build 802
| none
| Comunità Nuova/Barrio's - Mario Lenelli (?)
|}

=== Oceania ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Solomon Islands
| Pijin, Marovo
| ?
| David Leeming?
|}

Deployment Team/Places

2009-09-17T17:07:28Z

Jose Icaza: Added in TecnoTzotzil deployment

<noinclude>{{GoogleTrans-en}}{{TeamHeader|Deployment Team}}{{TOCright}}</noinclude>
=== Introduction ===

This page lists the places in the world where Sugar is used along with a contact person that will facilitate communication between the global and the local communities.

The column "# of members" is intended to give a rough estimation of the size of the local community and may include children, educators, parents, volunteers, etc

=== Asia ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| India
| English, Hindi, Marathi
| 32
| [[USER:Jpritikin|Joshua Pritikin]]
|-
| Nepal
| Nepali
| 40
| [[USER:BryanWB|Bryan Berry]], Rabi Karmacharya
|-
| Quezon City, Philippines
| Filipino, English
| 30
| [[USER:Jgotangco|Jerome Gotangco]]
|-
| BanSamka, Thailand
| Thai
| ~30 OLPC XO (beta-2 machines?)
| Arnan Sipitakiat?
|}

=== Africa ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! Software
! Hardware
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Ethiopia
| Amharic
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| ?
|-
| Rwanda
| English?
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| David Cavallo?
|-
| Nigeria
| English?
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Schumberger?
|}

=== America ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! Software
! Hardware
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Colombia
| Spanish
| Fedora 11/Sugar - LiveCDs - SOAS
| Desktop PCs
| 7
| RafaelOrtiz
|-
| Peru
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Hernan Pachas?
|-
| Uruguay
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| Pablo Flores?
|-
| Paraguay
| Spanish
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| 4500
| Raul Gutierrez S.
|-
| Chiapas, Mexico
| Spanish
| SoaS Strawberry on SD cards + ejabber server
| Classmate Convertible
| 30, two rural classrooms
| [[User:Jose Icaza|Jose I. Icaza]] [http://sites.google.com/site/tecnotzotzil TecnoTzotzil] project page
|-
| Bermingham, AL, USA
| English
| ?
| OLPC XO-1
| ?
| ?
|-
| Boston, MA, USA
| English
| SoaS Strawberry (0.84)
| HP EVO 500 desktops
| ?
| Caroline Meeks
|}

=== Europe ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of Sugar installations
! Hardware used
! Software version
! Project blog/wiki
! Contact
|-
| Graz, Austria
| German
| 25
| XO-1
| build 767
| [http://elearningblog.phst.at/?cat=32 blog] (in German)
| David Van Assche, [[User:ChristophD|Christoph Derndorfer]]
|-
| London, United Kingdom
| English
| 30
| XO-1
| build 802
| [http://olpc.org.uk/ blog], [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-uk mailing list], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_UK wiki]
| [[User:PeterRobinson|Peter Robinson]], [[User:MartinDengler|Martin Dengler]]
|}

=== Oceania ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Solomon Islands
| Pijin, Marovo
| ?
| David Leeming?
|}

User:Jose Icaza

2009-07-19T22:08:21Z

Jose Icaza: Created page with 'Hi visitor - I'm at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, currently co-leading the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Chiapas OLPC Chiapas] project that will deploy Strawberry on Clas…'

Hi visitor -

I'm at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, currently co-leading the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Chiapas OLPC Chiapas] project that will deploy Strawberry on Classmate convertible netbooks. The P.I. is Dra. Yolanda Heredia from the Graduate School of Education. Other participants are David Jimenez (trac id davidjim), Lucero Quilla (trac i.d. lucero_quilla) and Miguel Angel Gonzalez.

Up to know (July 19) we have been mainly making sure Sugar and activities run well on the smaller screen of the Classmate, reporting bugs, fixing up the wireless under Sugar which initially didn't work, trying to make classmates work with SoaS and the XServer, finishing up translations to Spanish of the Sugar manual and several activities; developing a friendly, simpler manual for kids, and developing educational activities compatible with school curriculum yet strongly constructionist. Lucero is also working on two new software activities in Python which will be of general utility to the community

Thanks for dropping by...

VirtualBox

2009-07-15T19:28:43Z

Jose Icaza: /* Setup a Virtual Machine for Sugar on a Stick */ added Issues subsection

{{TOCright}}
[[wikipedia:VirtualBox|VirtualBox]] is an x86 virtualization system available as either GPL or commercial software. It runs on either Win32 or Linux host machines, allowing you to run [[Emulator image files|OLPC images]] within the virtual machine. The following instructions are mostly for VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition), which is available in packages in many Linux distributions. You can also download it and its documentation from the [http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox.org] Web site.

==Sugar on a Stick==
These are instructions for using a copy of Sugar on a Stick, configured to run in a VirtualBox<sup>®</sup> virtual appliance (a virtual machine disc image ready to run in the VirtualBox host application).

* Download http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip (dated: 24 June 2009)
* Unzip the file you just downloaded and remember where you put it - you'll get a .vdi file.
* Follow the instructions below to get and configure the VirtualBox host application.

Please be aware of the fact that this is still beta quality and not at all ready for production use. You might want to create your own VirtualBox disc image from another snapshot or iso disc file. Instructions to do so are located here, [[VirtualBox/Preparing a disk image]].

You can also convert .img image files from [[QEMU | qemu]] formats, such as qcow2, to vmdk format, which VirtualBox can open. The qemu-img command usually detects the source image format automatically.

$ qemu-img convert -O vmdk file.img file.vmdk

* USB (2GB or larger) Boot Stick to run VirtualBox Images:
see:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware#Running_VMPlayer_and_an_Appliance_using_a_Single_8_GB_USB_Boot_Stick
Download VirtualBox OSE program and install instead of VMPlayer
Boot PC from stick and run images on same or 2nd stick.

==Install VirtualBox==
=== OS X ===

# Download VirtualBox for OS X from here, http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
# If you haven't done so yet, you should start the download of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox#Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar on a Stick vdi]]
# Install it by opening the DMG.
# Follow the instructions in the window
## Double click VirtualBox.mpkg
## If you see a warning about running a program from the internet click OK to run it.
## click continue until you see the license popup, click Agree.
## Choose location to install, probably something like Macintosh HD then click Continue.
## Click Continue, then Install. Enter password if required.
# Now you can run VirtualBox by opening the Applications folder and double clicking on the icon.
# Next Follow the instructions '''Setup a Virtual Machine for Sugar on a Stick'''

You can watch a screencast video of the rest of the process on a Mac here: http://tinyurl.com/nz4rhd.

=== Windows ===

: Download from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.

=== Linux ===
:See http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
:For Ubuntu, it is available in Synaptic Package Manager, once you add the the URI, distribution & components to your 3rd-party software sources or enter the following in your /etc/apt/sources.list.
deb <nowiki>http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian</nowiki> <distribution> non-free

:Install '''dkms''', as well, so upgrades will update the kernel modules.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy: Use downloaded file from link above, Synaptic does not load
Virtual Box that works [satellit 05/08/2009]

==Setup a Virtual Machine for Sugar on a Stick==
(You can watch a screencast video of the process on a Mac here: http://tinyurl.com/nz4rhd.)
# In VirtualBox click New
# Click Next
# Enter a name "Sugar"
# Operating System: choose Linux
# Version: choose Fedora
# Click Next
# For memory leave 256 MB
# Click Next
# Virtual Hard Disk click Existing
# Click the little folder to the right of the selection box
## A new window pops up
## Click Add button in the toolbar
## Browse to the location where you extracted the .vdi disk image
## Click Open
## Click Select
# Click Next
# Click Finish
# Select Sugar on the left
# Click Start in the toolbar
# After a minute or two you should see the Sugar screen asking for you name
# Enter your name
# Click Done at the bottom of the window. You might have to scroll.
# From now on you can start VirtualBox and start the "Sugar" virtual machine

===Issues===

Getting to the Frame might be a little difficult. You have to position the Sugar cursor very precisely and only one or two of the corners might work.

You might wish to change the Virtual Box default key for swithching the Sugar cursor to the normal one, as the default key (control right arrow) is trapped by Sugar. You may do this change in File/settings of the Virtual Box menu.

==Mounting Drives==

===Hard Drives===

When booting from a CD image, with a hard drive image attached, you can mount the hard drive by creating an empty directory to mount it on. The form of the command is

$ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/drive

for the first hard drive. The mount point can be anywhere you have permission to create a directory, although /mnt and ~/mnt are the usual choices.

This gives you a place to save files that cannot be written to CDs.

===USB===

USB access is not available in the Open Source Edition of VirtualBox.

In order to access USB storage devices, the user must have access to the usbfs file system. The permissions for usbfs can be changed by editing the /etc/fstab file.

For example, most Linux distributions have a user group called usb or similar, of which the current user must be a member. To give all users of that group access to usbfs, make sure the following line is present in /etc/fstab:

# 85 is the USB group
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=85,devmode=664 0 0

Replace 85 with the group ID that matches your system (search /etc/group for "usb" or similar).

After this, you should be able to mount real USB drives in the normal manner.

===Shared Directories===

In order to access a directory on your real hard drive, VirtualBox needs the Guest Additions installed.

Mount the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file

Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and execute as root:

sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

In a 64-bit Linux guest, use VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run instead.

After this installation, you can create a share in the VirtualBox GUI, and mount it in somewhat the normal way, but with the vboxsf file system type.

mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint

==Resources==
* http://www.virtualbox.org/
* [[OLPC:VirtualBox]]
* [http://fedorasolved.org/Members/realz/VB_Guest_Addition How To Install Virtualbox Guest Additions in Fedora Guest]

[[Category:HowTo]]

VirtualBox

2009-07-15T19:16:26Z

Jose Icaza: /* Setup a Virtual Machine for Sugar on a Stick */ added instruction before "a new window pops up"

{{TOCright}}
[[wikipedia:VirtualBox|VirtualBox]] is an x86 virtualization system available as either GPL or commercial software. It runs on either Win32 or Linux host machines, allowing you to run [[Emulator image files|OLPC images]] within the virtual machine. The following instructions are mostly for VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition), which is available in packages in many Linux distributions. You can also download it and its documentation from the [http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox.org] Web site.

==Sugar on a Stick==
These are instructions for using a copy of Sugar on a Stick, configured to run in a VirtualBox<sup>®</sup> virtual appliance (a virtual machine disc image ready to run in the VirtualBox host application).

* Download http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip (dated: 24 June 2009)
* Unzip the file you just downloaded and remember where you put it - you'll get a .vdi file.
* Follow the instructions below to get and configure the VirtualBox host application.

Please be aware of the fact that this is still beta quality and not at all ready for production use. You might want to create your own VirtualBox disc image from another snapshot or iso disc file. Instructions to do so are located here, [[VirtualBox/Preparing a disk image]].

You can also convert .img image files from [[QEMU | qemu]] formats, such as qcow2, to vmdk format, which VirtualBox can open. The qemu-img command usually detects the source image format automatically.

$ qemu-img convert -O vmdk file.img file.vmdk

* USB (2GB or larger) Boot Stick to run VirtualBox Images:
see:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware#Running_VMPlayer_and_an_Appliance_using_a_Single_8_GB_USB_Boot_Stick
Download VirtualBox OSE program and install instead of VMPlayer
Boot PC from stick and run images on same or 2nd stick.

==Install VirtualBox==
=== OS X ===

# Download VirtualBox for OS X from here, http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
# If you haven't done so yet, you should start the download of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox#Sugar_on_a_Stick Sugar on a Stick vdi]]
# Install it by opening the DMG.
# Follow the instructions in the window
## Double click VirtualBox.mpkg
## If you see a warning about running a program from the internet click OK to run it.
## click continue until you see the license popup, click Agree.
## Choose location to install, probably something like Macintosh HD then click Continue.
## Click Continue, then Install. Enter password if required.
# Now you can run VirtualBox by opening the Applications folder and double clicking on the icon.
# Next Follow the instructions '''Setup a Virtual Machine for Sugar on a Stick'''

You can watch a screencast video of the rest of the process on a Mac here: http://tinyurl.com/nz4rhd.

=== Windows ===

: Download from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.

=== Linux ===
:See http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
:For Ubuntu, it is available in Synaptic Package Manager, once you add the the URI, distribution & components to your 3rd-party software sources or enter the following in your /etc/apt/sources.list.
deb <nowiki>http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian</nowiki> <distribution> non-free

:Install '''dkms''', as well, so upgrades will update the kernel modules.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy: Use downloaded file from link above, Synaptic does not load
Virtual Box that works [satellit 05/08/2009]

==Setup a Virtual Machine for Sugar on a Stick==
(You can watch a screencast video of the process on a Mac here: http://tinyurl.com/nz4rhd.)
# In VirtualBox click New
# Click Next
# Enter a name "Sugar"
# Operating System: choose Linux
# Version: choose Fedora
# Click Next
# For memory leave 256 MB
# Click Next
# Virtual Hard Disk click Existing
# Click the little folder to the right of the selection box
## A new window pops up
## Click Add button in the toolbar
## Browse to the location where you extracted the .vdi disk image
## Click Open
## Click Select
# Click Next
# Click Finish
# Select Sugar on the left
# Click Start in the toolbar
# After a minute or two you should see the Sugar screen asking for you name
# Enter your name
# Click Done at the bottom of the window. You might have to scroll.
# From now on you can start VirtualBox and start the "Sugar" virtual machine

==Mounting Drives==

===Hard Drives===

When booting from a CD image, with a hard drive image attached, you can mount the hard drive by creating an empty directory to mount it on. The form of the command is

$ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/drive

for the first hard drive. The mount point can be anywhere you have permission to create a directory, although /mnt and ~/mnt are the usual choices.

This gives you a place to save files that cannot be written to CDs.

===USB===

USB access is not available in the Open Source Edition of VirtualBox.

In order to access USB storage devices, the user must have access to the usbfs file system. The permissions for usbfs can be changed by editing the /etc/fstab file.

For example, most Linux distributions have a user group called usb or similar, of which the current user must be a member. To give all users of that group access to usbfs, make sure the following line is present in /etc/fstab:

# 85 is the USB group
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=85,devmode=664 0 0

Replace 85 with the group ID that matches your system (search /etc/group for "usb" or similar).

After this, you should be able to mount real USB drives in the normal manner.

===Shared Directories===

In order to access a directory on your real hard drive, VirtualBox needs the Guest Additions installed.

Mount the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file

Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and execute as root:

sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

In a 64-bit Linux guest, use VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run instead.

After this installation, you can create a share in the VirtualBox GUI, and mount it in somewhat the normal way, but with the vboxsf file system type.

mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint

==Resources==
* http://www.virtualbox.org/
* [[OLPC:VirtualBox]]
* [http://fedorasolved.org/Members/realz/VB_Guest_Addition How To Install Virtualbox Guest Additions in Fedora Guest]

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