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======[[File:VirtualBox.png|50px]]'''Set up MacBook to Open VirtualBox'''======
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======[[File:VirtualBox.png|50px]]'''[[Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Autostart_Virtualbox_Mac|Setup Mac to Autostart VirtualBox on startup]]'''======
:: '''..automatically when you power it on'''
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:how to set it up
:Mac OSX Version 10.6.8
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*Open System Preferences/Accounts
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:use Spotlight:
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::magnifying glass on right end of top bar
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:search for "accounts"
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:Choose System Preferences| Accounts
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*Click on your user
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:unlock
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:login Options/
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:Login Items (to right)
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:Click Add(+) button to the right of the accounts list
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:Select an application '''VirtualBox  -  Application''' and click add.
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:lock
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*Boot Mac
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:Mac opens directly to VirtualBox VirtualBox Manager
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:Pointed to VirtualBox Appliance - (the last one used)
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:: You can select another on list
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:==> Start
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* Now when the MacBook is powered on, it will boot up in VirtualBox pointed at the last Virtual Appliance used
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:'''There can be multiple VirtualBox appliances, belonging to individual students/teachers to choose from, on the same Mac.'''
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:Nice school set up for 1 Mac with multiple student's Sugar.
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:'''easy to archive''' with '''export''' function of VirtualBox  - save weekly? backups for each of the students.
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: To roll back: import the previously exported file -  quick and easy
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* [[Improve_Sugar_on_a_Stick#Where_we_need_to_simplify| Where we need to simplify]]  We need a simple, elegant, Sugar specific UI that is presented to the user when they insert a stick into a running Windows machine.
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*Suggestion-1:
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:Download the 2 files for VirtualBox import to a 2nd USB stick
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:On insertion; the contents of the USB stick pop up
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  An example:
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  f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser-disk1.vmdk
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  f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser.ovf '''<==click on this file and it immediately imports into VirtualBox (less than 2 Minutes)'''
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  (Only the .ovf file icon is highlighted in the USB stick contents)
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*Suggestion-2:
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:Export the VirtualBox .vdi hard drive to a 2nd USB and create a new machine that uses the .vdi to run
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:/home/(user)/VirtualBox VMs/ (copy all three files to USB-stick)
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:Create a new appliance
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:use pre-existing hard disk
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:Look for .vdi (on USB-stick)
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[[File:Trisquel_running_from_Ext_USB-stick.png|200px]]
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;click on image ^ to enlarge
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:Use your browser (back) <== arrow to return here
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*This is OS agnostic for a system with an installed VirtualBox 4.1
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