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With VirtualBox^® one can run Sugar on Microsoft Windows, Intel-based Apple Macintosh, or GNU/Linux host computers from within a virtual machine window.

See this VirtualBox overview. VirtualBox is a large software installation with many features and operating system options. A User Manual and other documentation is available online. Those who have not used VirtualBox before, might find it more easy to understand and install than expected.

VirtualBox Downloads: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

(See VirtualBox/Technical for some collected details.)

The following instructions are intended for those Learners interested in using VirtualBox to run Sugar. The process is not fully mature as the technology is evolving both in the VirtualBox and operating system software.

Online IRC support is available from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/IRC

Various VirtualBox experiments may be found on the discussion page.

Install VirtualBox

on Mac OS X

Follow the instructions on the VirtualBox Downloads page for Mac OS X.

on Microsoft Windows

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

on GNU/Linux

Use the VirtualBox packages available in your GNU/Linux distribution. For example, on Ubuntu, it is available in Ubuntu Software Centre.

Or, use the most recent packages from VirtualBox, see Linux Downloads.

Also, see Talk:VirtualBox page for experimental installation variations.

Setup a Virtual Machine for Sugar on a Stick

Notice: Prebuilt VirtualBox 4.1 Appliances are available. Just click "import" on one of the .vmdk or .ovf files.

One may also use these instructions, VirtualBox/Preparing a disk image, to prepare one's own.

You can watch a screencast video of the process with an earlier version of SoaS on a Mac here:

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
1. A new window pops up
2. Click Add button in the toolbar
3. Browse to the location where you extracted the .vdi disk image
4. Click Open
5. 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

Setup a Virtual Machine for Ubuntu Sugar

Use Ubuntu Software Centre to install the virtualbox-guest-utils package, so that your virtual machine display can be resized to fit your computer.

Issues

Activating the Frame might be a little difficult. The lower 2 corners are easiest and you may want to configure edge activation in the My Settings > Frame panel. With VirtualBox Guest Additions installed (see here), only the bottom edge and corners are available for Frame activation.

On Mac keyboards, you might wish to change the Virtual Box default key for switching the Sugar cursor to the normal one, as the default key (control right arrow on Mac keyboards) is trapped by Sugar. (Windows and Linux keyboards use Right Ctrl.) You may do this change in File/settings of the Virtual Box menu.

Resources

http://www.virtualbox.org/
OLPC:VirtualBox
How To Install Virtualbox Guest Additions in Fedora Guest (Based on Fedora 8)
install the virtualbox guest additions

on Debian, Ubuntu, or derived distributions

sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-utils

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+<noinclude>
-[[wikipedia:VirtualBox|VirtualBox]] is an x86 virtualization system available as either GPL or commercial software. It runs on either Win32, Intel Mac or Linux host machines, allowing you to run [[Emulator image files|Sugar 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.
+[[Category:Virtual machine or platform emulator]]
-==Disc images==
+[[Category:HowTo]]
-===Sugar on a Stick===
+</noinclude>
-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).
+With [[wikipedia:VirtualBox|VirtualBox<sup>®</sup>]] one can run [[Emulator image files|Sugar]] on Microsoft Windows, Intel-based  Apple Macintosh, or GNU/Linux host computers from within a virtual machine window.
+See this '''[https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox overview]'''. VirtualBox is a large software installation with many features and operating system options. A [https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Documentation User Manual and other documentation] is available online. Those who have not used VirtualBox before, might find it more easy to understand and install than expected.
-* Download http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip (dated: 24 June 2009)
+VirtualBox Downloads: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
-* 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]].
+(See [[VirtualBox/Technical]] for some collected details.)
-===QEMU image conversion===
-You can also convert .img image files from [[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
+The following instructions are intended for those Learners interested in using VirtualBox to run Sugar.  The process is not fully mature as the technology is evolving both in the VirtualBox and operating system software.
+: Online IRC support is available from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/IRC
+: Various VirtualBox experiments may be found on the [[Talk:VirtualBox|discussion page]].
 ==Install VirtualBox==
-=== OS X ===
+=== on Mac 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 the [[VirtualBox#Sugar_on_a_Stick | Sugar on a Stick vdi zip file]] (above).
-# 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.
+Follow the instructions on the VirtualBox [https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Downloads page] for Mac OS X.
-=== Windows ===
+=== on Microsoft Windows ===
 : Download from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.
-=== Linux ===
+=== on GNU/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]
-====Install on USB disc====
+Use the VirtualBox packages available in your GNU/Linux distribution.  For example, on Ubuntu, it is available in Ubuntu Software Centre.
-(2-GB or larger USB storage device needed to run VirtualBox Images)
-One could modify the instructions at [[VMware#One_8-GiB_stick_with_2_partitions]]
+Or, use the most recent packages from VirtualBox, see [http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads Linux Downloads].
-* Download VirtualBox OSE program, and install instead of VMPlayer.
-* Boot PC from stick, and run images on same or 2nd stick.
-==Experimental Prebuilt VirtualBox 4GB Blueberry.vdi file==
-* Prebuilt : '''Blueberrycleared.vdi.tar.gz''' [http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Blueberrycleared.vdi.tar.gz]'''soas-blueberry-vmdk-1.zip''' [http://people.sugarlabs.org/wadeb/soas-blueberry-vmdk-1.zip]
-* ReadMe:[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Blueberrycleared.txt]
-==Virtualbox 3.2.1 on 16GB Toshiba USB Running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic==
+Also, see [[Talk:VirtualBox]] page for experimental installation variations.
-A nice portable USB Stick solution [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:VirtualBox]
 ==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.)
+'''Notice:''' [[Emulator_image_files#VirtualBox|Prebuilt VirtualBox 4.1 Appliances]] are available. Just click "import" on one of the .vmdk or .ovf files.
+:One may also use these instructions, [[VirtualBox/Preparing a disk image]], to prepare one's own.
+{{Iframe|You can watch a screencast video of the process with an earlier version of SoaS on a Mac here: |http://www.screencast.com/users/solutiongrove/folders/Jing/media/2ab6e487-6bee-4517-b099-a96aab0e0098
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 # In VirtualBox click New
 # Click Next
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 # 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
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 # From now on you can start VirtualBox and start the "Sugar" virtual machine
-===Issues===
+==Setup a Virtual Machine for Ubuntu Sugar==
+Use Ubuntu Software Centre to install the ''virtualbox-guest-utils'' package, so that your virtual machine display can be resized to fit your computer.
+==Issues==
 * Activating the Frame might be a little difficult. The lower 2 corners are easiest and you may want to configure edge activation in the My Settings > Frame panel.  With VirtualBox Guest Additions installed (see [[VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image#Installing_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions| here]]), only the bottom edge and corners are available for Frame activation.
 * On Mac keyboards, you might wish to change the Virtual Box default key for switching the Sugar cursor to the normal one, as the default key (control right arrow on Mac keyboards) is trapped by Sugar. (Windows and Linux keyboards use Right Ctrl.) 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]
+* [http://fedorasolved.org/Members/realz/VB_Guest_Addition How To Install Virtualbox Guest Additions in Fedora Guest] (Based on Fedora 8)
+* install the virtualbox guest additions
-[[Category:HowTo]]
+::on Debian, Ubuntu, or derived distributions
+ sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-utils