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'
  

fedora-19 Mate 1.6.0 and Sugar-desktop 0.98.7

NEW 05 15 2013

• RECOMENDED as opportunity to see latest sugar-desktop

Tested as import to VirtualBox satellit

• Built with livecd-tools and fedora-livecd-mate-compiz.ks in Fedora 19 BetaTC4 Mate Desktop

root=sugarroot

User=sugar

Password=sugaruser

Sugar-desktop and sugar-emulator

• download and import:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/mate-compiz.iso_1.ova 1.4G

• Log in to mate or sugar session at login
• NOTE software update in sugar-control panel does not work

Sugar on a Stick v9 (Beta)

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_19

Beta accepted 05/23/2013

sugar 0.98.7

• Download and import this VirtualBox Remix file into VirtualBox:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/fedora_live_SoaS_x86_524-DL.ova 781M

• Root=sugarroot
• User= sugar password= sugaruser

lightdm login will display

sugar

Blank Bar (enter login: sugaruser)

sugar

• Boots to (Name_____) and (Color_____) then f3 Home sugar screen

How to add your user to the vboxusers group

• Required to allow USB access to sugar

(This cannot be done from gnome or KDE users)

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers username

In this case it will be:

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers sugar

Sugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai

ʻŌhelo ʻai is the name of a native Hawaiian berry

Sugar Desktop Environment f18 anaconda 19.6-2 DVD x86_64

• RECOMMENDED

anaconda 19.6-2

NEW 02 19 2013

root=sugarroot

firstboot not run

sugar 0.98.3 includes Additional sugar activities; administration tools

• download and import:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugar-anaconda-19.6-2-DVD.ova

• Bug: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4289 is fixed

User can change XO colors and frame and keep jabber connection

• Built with: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/anaconda/anaconda-19.6-2-DVD.iso

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

Updated 02/20/2013

RECOMMENDED

Sugar 0.96.1

• download and import:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-SoaS.ova

firstboot not run

• 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

8-GB Virtual Box hard disc

English and English keyboard

USA-Los Angeles (Pacific timezone)

See Introduction to the Sugar Interface

Older versions of Sugar on a Stick

Sugar on a Stick/Archive/Virtual machines

Trisquel-5.0-sugar

RECOMMENDED

• Sugar Desktop ONLY

Trisquel 5.0 is based on the previous Ubuntu release, 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

Sugar 0.94.1

• More Info: TOAST
• download and import 2 files:
  1. http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Trisquel_5-Sugar-disk1.vmdk 540M
  2. http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Trisquel_5-Sugar.ovf 12K

autologon

starts at color selection

use <==(Back) to change name

Auto logon

enter password on restart

User = sugar

password = sugaruser

4-GB Virtual Box hard disc

English and English keyboard

USA-Los Angeles (Pacific timezone)

Older versions of Toast

Trisquel On A Sugar Toast/Virtual machines/Archive

Full list of Virtual Appliances

• Discussion on Sugar in Virtualization

Other Linux Distributions with sugar

Other Virtualization Types