https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Sugar_Creation_Kit%2Fsck%2FAutostart_Virtualbox_MacSugar Creation Kit/sck/Autostart Virtualbox Mac - Revision history2026-05-30T04:27:46ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.0https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Autostart_Virtualbox_Mac&diff=75594&oldid=prevSatellit: new sub-page Autostart Virtualbox Mac2012-02-20T13:32:32Z<p>new sub-page Autostart Virtualbox Mac</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>======[[File:VirtualBox.png|50px]]'''Set up MacBook to Open VirtualBox'''======<br />
:: '''..automatically when you power it on'''<br />
:Mac OSX Version 10.6.8 <br />
*Open System Preferences/Accounts<br />
:use Spotlight:<br />
::magnifying glass on right end of top bar<br />
:search for "accounts"<br />
:Choose System Preferences| Accounts<br />
*Click on your user<br />
:unlock<br />
:login Options/<br />
:Login Items (to right)<br />
:Click Add(+) button to the right of the accounts list<br />
:Select an application '''VirtualBox - Application''' and click add.<br />
:lock<br />
*Boot Mac<br />
:Mac opens directly to VirtualBox VirtualBox Manager<br />
:Pointed to VirtualBox Appliance - (the last one used)<br />
:: You can select another on list<br />
:==> Start<br />
* Now when the MacBook is powered on, it will boot up in VirtualBox pointed at the last Virtual Appliance used <br />
:'''There can be multiple VirtualBox appliances, belonging to individual students/teachers to choose from, on the same Mac.'''<br />
:Nice school set up for 1 Mac with multiple student's Sugar.<br />
:'''easy to archive''' with '''export''' function of VirtualBox - save weekly? backups for each of the students.<br />
: To roll back: import the previously exported file - quick and easy<br />
<br />
* [[Improve_Sugar_on_a_Stick#Where_we_need_to_simplify| Where we need to simplify]] We need a simple, elegant, Sugar specific UI that is presented to the user when they insert a stick into a running Windows machine.<br />
*Suggestion-1:<br />
:Download the 2 files for VirtualBox import to a 2nd USB stick<br />
:On insertion; the contents of the USB stick pop up<br />
An example:<br />
f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser-disk1.vmdk<br />
f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser.ovf '''<==click on this file and it immediately imports into VirtualBox (less than 2 Minutes)''' <br />
(Only the .ovf file icon is highlighted in the USB stick contents)<br />
*Suggestion-2:<br />
:Export the VirtualBox .vdi hard drive to a 2nd USB and create a new machine that uses the .vdi to run<br />
:/home/(user)/VirtualBox VMs/ (copy all three files to USB-stick)<br />
:Create a new appliance<br />
:use pre-existing hard disk<br />
:Look for .vdi (on USB-stick)<br />
[[File:Trisquel_running_from_Ext_USB-stick.png|200px]]<br />
;click on image ^ to enlarge<br />
:Use your browser (back) <== arrow to return here<br />
*This is OS agnostic for a system with an installed VirtualBox 4.1</div>Satellit