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[[wikipedia:VMware|'''VMware''']] (Workstation, Player, Server) is a commercial, "non-free", virtualization system that emulates hardware resources allowing one computer to host a number of x86 architecture-compatible operating systems. The Player and Server versions are distributed free of charge (gratis). It runs on either Win32 or Linux host machines, allowing one to run Sugar images within the virtual machine. A Mac version is also available, VMware Fusion, however this is not provided free of charge. A free, 30-day evaluation is available, and free licenses are [http://www.vmware.com/partners/academic/ available] for academic instruction and research use.
[[wikipedia:VMware|VMware]] (Workstation, Player, Server) is a commercial virtualization system that emulates hardware resources allowing one computer to host a number of x86 architecture-compatible operating systems. The Player and Server versions are distributed free of charge (gratis). It runs on either Win32 or Linux host machines, allowing you to run OLPC images within the virtual machine. A Mac version is also available, VMWare Fusion, however this is not provided free of charge (a free 30-day evaluation is available).
 
  
===How to Make Emulation Files for running SUGAR Desktop===
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Software applications, such as the Sugar platform, may be deployed as VMware Virtual Appliances, which are one or more virtual machines pre-built, packaged, installed, updated, maintained, and managed as a unit.
==Appliances from a Live .iso file (No Persistence)==
 
*Make new Appliance in VMWorkstation with 2GB (or smaller) hard disk
 
*set XXX- live-.iso as CD in VMworkstation with a 0.1GB Hard disk.
 
* boot and run VMworkstation, shut down.
 
*copy contents of new Appliance in the VMWARE directory to USB
 
*copyXXX- live.iso file to same USB
 
*Open this copied Appliance on USB with VMWorkstation and edit location of live.iso file to point to one on USB stick, then close it.
 
*start VMPlayer and open this Appliance on USB. Or any other VMPlayer on any PC
 
this appliance is just like a boot CD it has no persistence.
 
(you are playing the .iso image with VMPlayer) file size is only larger the .iso file
 
===Boot this Appliance from a USB Boot stick (see below)===
 
*can be opened on any PC without changing or accessing it's hard disk
 
*Use to run Soas .iso files on PC's without CD but with USB
 
*Run Sugar on unbootable PC's using a VMPlayer application
 
  
==Appliances with Persistence==
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==Appliance files==
*VMWorkstation 6.5.2 with Fedora-11-Preview-i386-netinst.iso
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See '''[[Emulator image files]]'''.
*Settings for VMWorkstation: (1)create new virtual machine(2)Typical(3)Installer Disk image file (iso):(Fedora-11-Preview-i386-netinst.iso)
 
(4)Linux(5)other linux 2.6xx kernel 8Gib disk(6)Max Disk Size (GB) 8.0(7)Split disk into 2GB files(8)512 memory.
 
*net install with network connection
 
*use entire disk
 
*deselect Gnome Desktop
 
*customize now
 
*select Sugar Desktop (Only selection entered)
 
*Set root password(sugarroot?) and time zone
 
*when finished (about 45 min on cable)
 
*Reboot set user password(sugaruser?) Shut down.
 
*Clone and save clone on Desktop and use to load on 4GiB SD or USB or make DVD (3.2Gib files)
 
(#)see note below to remove sugar user info and make ready for first user login.
 
Original Passwords for root and user(sugarroot/sugaruser?)entered during install remain and are needed for Login & Administration
 
This needs to be done so copies will have different identities.
 
===Comments===
 
*Run on FREE VMPlayer loaded on any PC with 512 Memory (requires 256 for VMplayer)
 
*ADVANTAGE: No Need to boot USB Stick on problem machines
 
*Same machine can be used by a succession of students with their own copy of sugar
 
*Students can take USB/SD home and run on their own PC's
 
*Disadvantage: Have to install VMPlayer on PC's
 
2 emulations on different PC's each running NAT on same network seem to cause "collisions" in jabber (Neighborhood View gets depopulated on both ???)
 
 
(#) Fix From davb [[VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image]]
 
1. Open Terminal
 
2. Terminal
 
3. rm -rf ~/.sugar (if distributing image)
 
4. su -
 
5. shutdown -h now
 
 
  
Logon screen allows user to switch session types:
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=====[http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml EasyVMX!] (build your own VMware virtual machine for VMware Player)=====
*KDE  *Sugar *Failsafe
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: Lets you bypass the requirement to have a copy of VMware Workstation to create your own VMware Player appliance from a burned CD of a live .iso
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:: Free website to download a custom .vmx file to use with your CD Drive
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:: (You must have the free application, VMware Player installed to use it.)
  
==Running VMPlayer and an Appliance using a Single 8 GB USB Boot Stick==
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* Web Page:-[http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml] Info:[http://www.virtualization.info/2005/12/guide-to-create-vmx-files-for-vmware.html]
Ubuntu 9.04 has a "USB Startup Disk Creator". I used a 8 GB USB Stick with 2 Partitions to Run a VMPlayer Appliance on the Same Stick
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VMPlayer WILL INSTALL on Ubuntu or Fedora 10 NOT ON F11 at this time.
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*openSUSE-edu:
METHOD:
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:'''NEW''' : [[OpenSUSE#openSUSE_12.2-sugar_0.96.2]]  --[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 08:07, 10 September 2012 (EDT)
*In PC running Ubuntu 9.04 (or running in VMworkstation6.5.2.)
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:Old : http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/Sugar/
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==Building a virtual appliance==
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====from a live.iso file (No persistence)====
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This appliance runs just like a bootable CD&mdash;it has no data persistence&mdash;the system image is treated as a read-only file. (You are running the .iso image with VMware Player.) The appliance file size is only slightly larger than the .iso file.
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* Make a new Appliance in VMware Workstation ([http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ 30-day, free evaluation license]) with (minimal) hard disk.
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* Set XXX-live.iso as CD in VMware Workstation with a 0.1 GB hard disk.
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* Boot and run VMware Workstation, then shut down.
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* Copy contents of the new Appliance in the VMware directory to a [[wikipedia:USB flash drive|USB flash drive]].
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* Copy XXX-live.iso file to the same USB drive.
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* Open this copied Appliance on the USB drive with VMware Workstation, and edit the location of the live.iso file to point to one on the USB stick, then close it.
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* Start VMware Player ([http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ free downwload]) and open this Appliance from the USB drive, or ''any other VMware Player on any PC''.
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'''Boot this Appliance from a USB boot drive/stick (see below)'''
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* The system can be run on any PC without changing or accessing its primary hard disk.
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* Use it to run Soas .iso images on PCs lacking a CD-ROM reader but with a USB port.
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* Run Sugar on unbootable PC's using a VMware Player application
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====Appliances with persistence====
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* VMware Workstation 6.5.2 with Fedora-11-i386-netinst.iso
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http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/i386/
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Fedora 11 DVD does not include Sugar Desktop
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* Settings for VMware Workstation:
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*# Create a new virtual machine
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*# Typical
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*# Installer disk image file:(Fedora-11-i386-netinst.iso)
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*# Linux
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*# Other linux 2.6xx kernel 8-GiB disk
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*# Max Disk Size (GB) 8.0
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*# Split disk into 2-GiB files
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*# 512 kB memory.
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* Net install with network connection
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* Use entire disk
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* De-select Gnome Desktop
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* Customize now
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* Select Sugar Desktop (Only selection entered)
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* Set a root password (sugarroot?) and time zone
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* When finished (about 45 min on ??-kbyte/s cable)
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* Reboot, set user password (sugaruser?), shut down.
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* Clone and save clone on Desktop and use to load on 4-GiB SD or USB or make DVD (3.2-Gib files)
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*: See note below to remove the Sugar user information and make the image ready for a new first user login. Original passwords for root and user (sugarroot/sugaruser?) entered during the install will remain and are needed for login & administration. This is required so that copies will have different identities.
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:Method to remove Sugar user information (from Dave Bauer [[VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image]]).
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:# Open Terminal
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:# Terminal
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:# rm -rf ~/.sugar (if distributing image)
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:# su -
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:# shutdown -h now
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====Alternatives====
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* Fedora-edu spin-(latest versions of F12(rawhide) Gnome & Sugar) [http://spins.fedoraproject.org/edu/]
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(enter liveinst in terminal to install to VMworkstation disks or USB)
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* SUSE Sugar Spin: [[Talk:VMware#openSUSE]]
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* EasyVMX! (build your own VMware virtual machine for VMware Player)-[http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml] info:[http://www.virtualization.info/2005/12/guide-to-create-vmx-files-for-vmware.html]
  
===Start Partition Manager===
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====Comments====
*delete existing partitions on USB [sdb?]
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* Run on VMware Player loaded on any PC with 512 kB of memory (256 kB required for VMware Player).
(BE CAREFUL TO BE LOOKING AT USB and not your Hard Disk)
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* ADVANTAGE: No need to boot USB stick on computers that have a problem booting from a USB device.
*Create a fat16 2 GB Primary Partition set boot flag and label it Ubuntu
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* The same computer can be used by a succession of students with their own copy of Sugar.
*exit partition manager
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* Students can take USB/SD drives home and run them on their own PCs.
*Run USB Startup Disk Creator
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* Disadvantage: Have to install VMware Player on PCs
*create USB select: /dev/sdb1 "Ubuntu"
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====More Info====
*Select "Other" and find Ubuntu 9.04.iso  (not live install) previously downloaded to Desktop
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# Other Methods:http://www.pendrivelinux.com/category/virtual-machine/
*create live usb on first partition.
 
*start partition manager again
 
(BE CAREFUL TO BE LOOKING AT USB and not your Hard Disk)
 
*Create a fat32 primary partition with the remaining unformatted space on the USB, set boot flag and label VM_Apps
 
*exit Partition Manager
 
===Remove and reinstall USB stick===
 
*Two USB icons will appear
 
*cut and paste previously obtained VMPlayer Appliance to VM_Apps
 
===ReBoot PC with USB Stick===
 
*Start Firefox and download VMPlayer (free)  Linux xxxx.bundle
 
*Place .bundle file in /tmp
 
*su - command in /tmp
 
*enter password for root
 
Install:( bundle in /tmp( ./ command as administrator. )
 
===Run VMPlayer Program===
 
*Start VMPlayer
 
*chooseVM_apps Icon and open VM Appliance file
 
*choose Gnome or SUGAR as login  enter password
 
  Initial Password sugar = sugaruser (change user name and password in live user)
 
                    root=sugarroot       
 
Have Fun  (Fedora 11 0.93 0.84-2)
 
*Thus one 8 GB USB stick loaded with Ubuntu 9.04 and VMPlayer plus the Appliance, a Student can
 
Carry the OS and a full copy of GNOME Desktop and SUGAR on a single USB Stick
 
*It is complicated to make but simple to use and it works.
 
==The Appliance can be loaded on a separate USB Stick==
 
2 USB/SD sticks (2GB Boot and 4GB or larger for appliance) 
 
===This allows VMPlayer to be used by multiple students without rebooting the PC===
 
  
==Windows XP SP2==
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===Two stick alternative===
Loads and runs emulation files in windows XP SP2 {Dell 2350 Tower}
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* Install VMware Player on a 2-GiB USB/SD boot stick
Appliance(Emulation) transfered by DVD and loaded on Hard Disk
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* Install the Sugar platform in a virtual appliance on a second 4-GiB or larger stick.
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'''This allows VMware Player to be used by multiple students without rebooting the PC.'''
  
== Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04 ==
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===One 8-GiB stick with 2 partitions===
VMworkstation 6.5.2 can make emulation files in Ubuntu
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Ubuntu 9.04 has a "USB Startup Disk Creator". I used a 8-GiB USB stick with 2 partitions to run a VMware Player Appliance on the Same Stick
VMPlayer, (available on line) will run these Appliances
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VMware Player WILL install on Ubuntu or Fedora 10, but NOT on F11 at this time.
the Appliance can be distributed them by copies on DVD,
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METHOD:
4 Gib SD, 4Gib USB
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* In PC running Ubuntu 9.04 (or running in VMware Workstation 6.5.2.)
or future downloads from sugarlabs server?
 
  
==Fedora 11==
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====Start partition manager====
VMPlayer will not load in Fedora 11 beta or Fedora Preview
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* Delete existing partitions on USB [/dev/sdb?]
loaded with sh command; Gets Unable to modify kernel error and quits
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*: (BE CAREFUL TO BE LOOKING AT the USB drive and not your Hard Disk.)
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* Create a FAT16 2-GiB Primary Partition, set boot flag, and label it Ubuntu
== Spin of SUGAR F11 preview live at: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/torrents//F11-Preview-i686-Live-Edu.torrent ==
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* Exit partition manager
It works well as a boot CD or as a 4GB Appliance for VMPlayer
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* Run USB Startup Disk Creator
It upgrades in VMPlayer to F11 (Leonidas) after 167 files +45 updates as of 5/30/2009 .
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* Create USB, select: /dev/sdb1 "Ubuntu"
it contains 0.84.2 sugar and Xfce 4 Desktop with a KDE switcher. It installs nicely in the normal manner.
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* Select "Other" and find Ubuntu 9.04.iso  (not live install) previously downloaded to Desktop
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* Create live usb on first partition.
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* Start partition manager again
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*: (BE CAREFUL TO BE LOOKING AT the USB drive and not your Hard Disk.)
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* Create a FAT32 primary partition with the remaining, unformatted space on the USB drive, set boot flag, and label VM_Apps
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* Exit Partition Manager
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====Remove and reinstall USB stick====
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* Two USB icons will appear
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* Copy VM Appliance into VM_Apps
  
*See above procedure to make a VMPlayer USB Boot Stick to run the
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====Re-boot PC with USB stick====
latest version of SUGAR DESKTOP in Fedora 11 as an Appliance.
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* Start Firefox and download VMware Player Linux xxxx.bundle
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* Place .bundle file in /tmp
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* su - command in /tmp
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* Enter password for root
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* Install bundle in /tmp ( ./ command as administrator. )
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====Run VMware Player====
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* Start VMware Player
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* Choose VM_apps Icon and open VM Appliance file
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* Choose Gnome or Sugar as login,  enter password
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*: Initial Password for Sugar = sugaruser (change user name and password in live user)
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*: Passwoord for root = sugarroot       
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:Have Fun  (Fedora 11 0.93 0.84-2)
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*Thus, with one 8-GiB USB stick loaded with Ubuntu 9.04 and VMware Player, plus the Appliance, a Student can carry the OS and a full copy of GNOME Desktop and Sugar on a single USB stick.
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* It is complicated to make, but simple to use and it works.
  
==Fedora 10==
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===Operating system notes===
VMPlayer can be loaded in Fedora 10 and used to run a VMPlayer Appliance
 
of SUGAR DESKTOP based on Fedora 11
 
The Sugar Desktop included in Fedora 10 is not the current version
 
as it has not been updated.
 
==openSUSE==
 
coming soon; testing to create VMPlayer Appliance for USB/SD  see: nubae and cyberorg on #irc
 
working on a live cd with a very large number of appliances :
 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/
 
unstable at this time/ will not log out except from sugar terminal/(logon+linux (no psswd), use startx or su - shutdown -h now) ...5/30/2009
 
  
==Resources==
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Archive: [[Talk:VMware#Operating System Notes]]
* http://www.vmware.com/
 
* [[OLPC:VMware]]
 

Latest revision as of 11:00, 1 February 2013

VMware (Workstation, Player, Server) is a commercial, "non-free", virtualization system that emulates hardware resources allowing one computer to host a number of x86 architecture-compatible operating systems. The Player and Server versions are distributed free of charge (gratis). It runs on either Win32 or Linux host machines, allowing one to run Sugar images within the virtual machine. A Mac version is also available, VMware Fusion, however this is not provided free of charge. A free, 30-day evaluation is available, and free licenses are available for academic instruction and research use.

Software applications, such as the Sugar platform, may be deployed as VMware Virtual Appliances, which are one or more virtual machines pre-built, packaged, installed, updated, maintained, and managed as a unit.

Appliance files

See Emulator image files.

EasyVMX! (build your own VMware virtual machine for VMware Player)
Lets you bypass the requirement to have a copy of VMware Workstation to create your own VMware Player appliance from a burned CD of a live .iso
Free website to download a custom .vmx file to use with your CD Drive
(You must have the free application, VMware Player installed to use it.)
  • openSUSE-edu:
NEW : OpenSUSE#openSUSE_12.2-sugar_0.96.2 --Satellit 08:07, 10 September 2012 (EDT)
Old : http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/Sugar/

Building a virtual appliance

from a live.iso file (No persistence)

This appliance runs just like a bootable CD—it has no data persistence—the system image is treated as a read-only file. (You are running the .iso image with VMware Player.) The appliance file size is only slightly larger than the .iso file.

  • Make a new Appliance in VMware Workstation (30-day, free evaluation license) with (minimal) hard disk.
  • Set XXX-live.iso as CD in VMware Workstation with a 0.1 GB hard disk.
  • Boot and run VMware Workstation, then shut down.
  • Copy contents of the new Appliance in the VMware directory to a USB flash drive.
  • Copy XXX-live.iso file to the same USB drive.
  • Open this copied Appliance on the USB drive with VMware Workstation, and edit the location of the live.iso file to point to one on the USB stick, then close it.
  • Start VMware Player (free downwload) and open this Appliance from the USB drive, or any other VMware Player on any PC.


Boot this Appliance from a USB boot drive/stick (see below)

  • The system can be run on any PC without changing or accessing its primary hard disk.
  • Use it to run Soas .iso images on PCs lacking a CD-ROM reader but with a USB port.
  • Run Sugar on unbootable PC's using a VMware Player application

Appliances with persistence

  • VMware Workstation 6.5.2 with Fedora-11-i386-netinst.iso
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/i386/
Fedora 11 DVD does not include Sugar Desktop
  • Settings for VMware Workstation:
    1. Create a new virtual machine
    2. Typical
    3. Installer disk image file:(Fedora-11-i386-netinst.iso)
    4. Linux
    5. Other linux 2.6xx kernel 8-GiB disk
    6. Max Disk Size (GB) 8.0
    7. Split disk into 2-GiB files
    8. 512 kB memory.
  • Net install with network connection
  • Use entire disk
  • De-select Gnome Desktop
  • Customize now
  • Select Sugar Desktop (Only selection entered)
  • Set a root password (sugarroot?) and time zone
  • When finished (about 45 min on ??-kbyte/s cable)
  • Reboot, set user password (sugaruser?), shut down.
  • Clone and save clone on Desktop and use to load on 4-GiB SD or USB or make DVD (3.2-Gib files)
    See note below to remove the Sugar user information and make the image ready for a new first user login. Original passwords for root and user (sugarroot/sugaruser?) entered during the install will remain and are needed for login & administration. This is required so that copies will have different identities.
Method to remove Sugar user information (from Dave Bauer VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image).
  1. Open Terminal
  2. Terminal
  3. rm -rf ~/.sugar (if distributing image)
  4. su -
  5. shutdown -h now

Alternatives

  • Fedora-edu spin-(latest versions of F12(rawhide) Gnome & Sugar) [3]

(enter liveinst in terminal to install to VMworkstation disks or USB)

Comments

  • Run on VMware Player loaded on any PC with 512 kB of memory (256 kB required for VMware Player).
  • ADVANTAGE: No need to boot USB stick on computers that have a problem booting from a USB device.
  • The same computer can be used by a succession of students with their own copy of Sugar.
  • Students can take USB/SD drives home and run them on their own PCs.
  • Disadvantage: Have to install VMware Player on PCs

More Info

  1. Other Methods:http://www.pendrivelinux.com/category/virtual-machine/

Two stick alternative

  • Install VMware Player on a 2-GiB USB/SD boot stick
  • Install the Sugar platform in a virtual appliance on a second 4-GiB or larger stick.

This allows VMware Player to be used by multiple students without rebooting the PC.

One 8-GiB stick with 2 partitions

Ubuntu 9.04 has a "USB Startup Disk Creator". I used a 8-GiB USB stick with 2 partitions to run a VMware Player Appliance on the Same Stick VMware Player WILL install on Ubuntu or Fedora 10, but NOT on F11 at this time. METHOD:

  • In PC running Ubuntu 9.04 (or running in VMware Workstation 6.5.2.)

Start partition manager

  • Delete existing partitions on USB [/dev/sdb?]
    (BE CAREFUL TO BE LOOKING AT the USB drive and not your Hard Disk.)
  • Create a FAT16 2-GiB Primary Partition, set boot flag, and label it Ubuntu
  • Exit partition manager
  • Run USB Startup Disk Creator
  • Create USB, select: /dev/sdb1 "Ubuntu"
  • Select "Other" and find Ubuntu 9.04.iso (not live install) previously downloaded to Desktop
  • Create live usb on first partition.
  • Start partition manager again
    (BE CAREFUL TO BE LOOKING AT the USB drive and not your Hard Disk.)
  • Create a FAT32 primary partition with the remaining, unformatted space on the USB drive, set boot flag, and label VM_Apps
  • Exit Partition Manager

Remove and reinstall USB stick

  • Two USB icons will appear
  • Copy VM Appliance into VM_Apps

Re-boot PC with USB stick

  • Start Firefox and download VMware Player Linux xxxx.bundle
  • Place .bundle file in /tmp
  • su - command in /tmp
  • Enter password for root
  • Install bundle in /tmp ( ./ command as administrator. )

Run VMware Player

  • Start VMware Player
  • Choose VM_apps Icon and open VM Appliance file
  • Choose Gnome or Sugar as login, enter password
    Initial Password for Sugar = sugaruser (change user name and password in live user)
    Passwoord for root = sugarroot
Have Fun (Fedora 11 0.93 0.84-2)
  • Thus, with one 8-GiB USB stick loaded with Ubuntu 9.04 and VMware Player, plus the Appliance, a Student can carry the OS and a full copy of GNOME Desktop and Sugar on a single USB stick.
  • It is complicated to make, but simple to use and it works.

Operating system notes

Archive: Talk:VMware#Operating System Notes