Sugar on a Stick/Virtual machines

With VirtualBox^® one can run Sugar in a window on Microsoft Windows, Intel-based Apple Macintosh, or Linux host computers from a virtual machine (VM) window. VirtualBox overview

• A good solution for running sugar on Macintosh computers
• RECOMMENDED: Oracle VirtualBox downloads

VirtualBox downloads Windows/Linux/Intel Macs

• When making a new VM, to clear the Sugar Journal of old entries and to avoid identity conflicts among copies of the VM, enter the command rm -rf ~/.sugar in the Terminal activity. Then shutdown the VM. This will clear all Learner information on the VM and let you start with a fresh install. Skipping this will result in collisions in the Neighborhood view of the Jabber network between separate copies of the appliance. Verify the presence of the .sugar directory by entering ls -a in Terminal.
• When cloning a customized VM, in order to keep the Journal and installed .xo Activities, use rm -rf ~/.sugar/default/owner.key* in the Sugar Terminal, and then shutdown the VM. enter in root terminal:su (password) shutdown -h now This leaves the Journal entries and removes only the previous Learner's identity key files.
• To clear the Sugar Journal:rm -rf ~/.sugar/default/datastore This may be needed if the Journal becomes clogged with too many entries. USE WITH CAUTION'
  

Sugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai

Sugar Desktop Environment f18 netinstall i386

anaconda 18.37.11

NEW downloading 01 22 2013

root=sugarroot

firstboot not run

sugar 0.98.2 includes Additional sugar activities; administration tools; System tools

• download and import 2 files:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Sugar-desktop-netinstall-disk1.vmdk 777M

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Sugar-desktop-netinstall.ovf 13K

• Problems:

Loses jabber connection if change name or color in sugar's MySettings/AboutMe after you set name and color on first run

• http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4289

Working f18-SoaS.iso's

updated 02/01/2013

• 32 and64 bit:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/

• Koji-Latest Nightlys: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?owner=&state=all&view=flat&method=createLiveCD&order=-id (Now building fedora 19)
• WARNING:loses jabber connection if you change name or color in sugar's MySettings/AboutMe

Keep the original values you set for name and color on first run

Do not change any values in MySettings/AboutMe that require a reset

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4289

Sugar on a Stick v7 Quandong

RECOMMENDED

Sugar 0.96.1

• download and import 2 files:
  1. http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SoaS-v7-i686-disk1.vmdk 699 MBytes
  2. http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SoaS-v7-i686.ovf 13 KBytes
• ERROR Rename to SoaS-v7 i686-disk1.vmdk after download or import will not work--Satellit 18:19, 26 June 2012 (EDT)
• Suggestion: (use your browser "save-as" to save the .ovf file)

Starts with grub2 screen

Goes to fedora 17 gdm logon

User=sugar

password=sugaruser

• SoaS starts at color selection

use <==(Back) to change/personalize users name

• Setting name and color configures the sugar identity and sets a unique ssd key
• This only happens the first time that this SoaS Appliance is started

root password=sugarroot

4-GB Virtual Box hard disc

English and English keyboard

USA-Los Angeles (Pacific timezone)

• Sugestions

go to My Settings /Frame and move the bottom slider fully left

See Introduction to the Sugar Interface for details on how to do this.

Older versions

Sugar on a Stick/Archive/Virtual machines