Sugar Creation Kit/sck/Autostart Virtualbox Mac

Set up MacBook to Open VirtualBox

..automatically when you power it on

Mac OSX Version 10.6.8

• Open System Preferences/Accounts

use Spotlight:

magnifying glass on right end of top bar

search for "accounts"

Choose System Preferences| Accounts

• Click on your user

unlock

login Options/

Login Items (to right)

Click Add(+) button to the right of the accounts list

Select an application VirtualBox - Application and click add.

lock

• Boot Mac

Mac opens directly to VirtualBox VirtualBox Manager

Pointed to VirtualBox Appliance - (the last one used)

You can select another on list

==> Start

• Now when the MacBook is powered on, it will boot up in VirtualBox pointed at the last Virtual Appliance used

There can be multiple VirtualBox appliances, belonging to individual students/teachers to choose from, on the same Mac.

Nice school set up for 1 Mac with multiple student's Sugar.

easy to archive with export function of VirtualBox - save weekly? backups for each of the students.

To roll back: import the previously exported file - quick and easy

• 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.
• Suggestion-1:

Download the 2 files for VirtualBox import to 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.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)

• 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)

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• This is OS agnostic for a system with an installed VirtualBox 4.1