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Improve Sugar on a Stick (view source)
Revision as of 19:55, 20 December 2011
, 19:55, 20 December 2011→Make it work to both boot and to run on the computers' current operating systems.: Export the VirtualBox .vdi hard drive to a 2nd USB and create a new machine that uses the .vdi to run
*We need a Mac and Linux VirtualBox or other VM Solution.
*We need a Mac and Linux VirtualBox or other VM Solution.
* We need a simple, elegant, Sugar specific UI that is presented to the user when they insert a stick into a running Windows machine.
* We need a simple, elegant, Sugar specific UI that is presented to the user when they insert a stick into a running Windows machine.
*Suggestion-1:
:Put 2 files for VirtualBox import/export on a 2nd USB stick
:On insertion; the contents of the USB stick pop up
:An example:
f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser-disk1.vmdk
f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser-disk1.vmdk
f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser.ovf '''<==click on this file and it immediately imports into VirtualBox (less than 2 Minutes)'''
f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser.ovf '''<==click on this file and it immediately imports into VirtualBox (less than 2 Minutes)'''
(Only the .ovf file icon is highlighted in the USB stick contents)
(Only the .ovf file icon is highlighted in the USB stick contents)
*Suggestion-2:
:Export the VirtualBox .vdi hard drive to a 2nd USB and create a new machine that uses the .vdi to run
:/home/(user)/VirtualBox VMs/ (copy all three files to USB-stick)
:Create a new appliance
:use pre-existing hard disk
:Look for .vdi (on USB-stick)
[[File:Trisquel_running_from_Ext_USB-stick.png|500px]]
*This is OS agnostic for a system with an installed VirtualBox 4.1
===Make it work with Macs.===
===Make it work with Macs.===
: It kinda works sometimes now. Some macs reboot if you do magic incantations. Some don't. A VirtualBox "boot helper" VM that started the boot in VirtualBox, then looks to the stick was created by Dave Bauer, but it doesn't work on all Macs yet.
: It kinda works sometimes now. Some macs reboot if you do magic incantations. Some don't. A VirtualBox "boot helper" VM that started the boot in VirtualBox, then looks to the stick was created by Dave Bauer, but it doesn't work on all Macs yet.