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*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.

Suggestion: Put 2 files for VirtualBox import/export on a 2nd USB stick

*Suggestion-1:

On insertion; the contents of the USB stick pop up

:Put 2 files for VirtualBox import/export on a 2nd USB stick

An example:

: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)

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

*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.===

: 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.

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 *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.
- Suggestion: Put 2 files for VirtualBox import/export on a 2nd USB stick
+*Suggestion-1:
- On insertion; the contents of the USB stick pop up
+:Put 2 files for VirtualBox import/export on a 2nd USB stick
-  An example:
+: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)
- This is OS agnostic for a system with an installed VirtualBox 4.1
+*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.===
 : 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.